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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. [root]234. See {Gold}.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. ''Gilded chariots.'' --Pope.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gilded
adjective
1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: {aureate}, {gilt}, {gold}, {golden}]
2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: {meretricious}, {specious}]
3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: {deluxe}, {luxurious}, {opulent}, {princely}, {sumptuous}]
4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn: {gold}, {golden}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gilded": apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream, creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish
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