Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gild

Gild (gild) , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon gyldan, from gold gold. r234. 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. — Shakespeare
4.
To make red with drinking. [Obsolete]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them. — Shakespeare