gilt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
    gilding.
  2. verb decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
    gild; engild; begild.
  3. adjective satellite having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
    aureate; gilded; gold; golden.
    • long aureate (or golden) hair
    • a gold carpet

WordNet

Gilt noun
Etymology
See Geld, v. t.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A female pig, when young.
Gilt
Definitions
  1. imp. & p. p. of Gild.
Gilt past participle & adjective
Definitions
  1. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.
Gilt noun
Definitions
  1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.
  2. Money. Obs. "The gilt of France." Shak.

Webster 1913