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Tarnish :: Tarnish (a.) To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color..

Water Gilding :: Water gilding () The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding..

Octogild :: Octogild (n.) A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing..

Checklaton :: Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather.

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size..

Gild :: Gild (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie..

Matted :: Matted (a.) Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding..

Aureate :: Aureate (a.) Golden; gilded.

Overgild :: Overgild (v. t.) To gild over; to varnish.

Gilden :: Gilden (a.) Gilded.

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve..

Begilded :: Begilded (imp. & p. p.) of Begil.

Gold-beaten :: Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.

Matte :: Matte (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss..

Inaurate :: Inaurate (a.) Covered with gold; gilded.

Gild :: Gild (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

Wehrgelt :: Wehrgelt (n.) See Weregild.

Engild :: Engild (v. t.) To gild; to make splendent.

Electro-gilt :: Electro-gilt (a.) Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..

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