gild (1 common in 16-17th cent.)
1.
to smear with
blood
John II. i. 316
“all gilt with
Frenchmen's blood,”
Mac. II. ii. 57
(quibble).
2.
to supply with money
Mer.V. II. vi. 49.
3.
to flush
Tp. V. i. 280
“liquor that hath gilded
them.”
4.
to give a specious
lustre to
1H4 V. iv. 162
“I'll it with the
happiest terms I have,”
2H4 I. ii. 171, Ant. I. v. 37,
Compl. 172
“deceits were g-ed in
his smiling.”
