gild
[gɪld]
vt. 镀金, 虚饰, 装饰, 供

1. The setting sun gilds the sky.
   落日把染金。
2. For such a beautiful girl, to use make-up would be to gild the lily.
   漂亮女孩，些蛇添足。
3. Her beauty gilds her vice.
   她美貌掩盖她邪恶。

gild
gilt
[ noun ]

1. a formal association of people with similar interests

<noun.group>
he joined a golf club
they formed a small lunch society
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

[ verb ]

1. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

<verb.creation> begild engild

Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [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.