gilt (See gild)
n : a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, society, guild, lodge, order] v : decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: begild, engild] [also: gilt]gilt adj : having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gold, golden] n : a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold [syn: gilding]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlt

• /gɪɫt/

Homophones

• guilt

Noun

1. A thin layer of gold; gilding
2. money
3. A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
4. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

Adjective

gilt

1. golden coloured

Verb

gilt

1. past tense and past participle of gild

A gilt is any of the following:

• A thin covering of gold. See gilding.
• A government bond issued in the UK for HM Treasury by the UK Debt Management Office. The term stems from the initial practice of producing government bond certificates with gold edges, hence 'gilt-edged'. See gilts.
• Gilt (pig) - An immature female pig which has birthed fewer than two litters.
• Gilt, an album by Machines of Loving Grace.
• Reacher Gilt, chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company in Going Postal, part of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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