4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them.
Shak. Gildale
(Gild"ale`) n. [AS. gilgan to pay + E. ale. See Yield, v. t., and Ale.] A drinking bout in which
every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]
Gilden
(Gild"en) a. Gilded. Holland.
Gilder
(Gild"er) n. One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
Gilder
(Gil"der) n. A Dutch coin. See Guilder.
Gilding
(Gild"ing) n.
1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of
that which resembles gold.
2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.
Gile
(Gile) n. [See Guile.] Guile. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gill
(Gill) n. [Dan. giælle, gelle; akin to Sw. gäl, Icel. gjölnar gills; cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw.]
1. (Anat.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
Ray. Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages, through which the blood circulates, and in which
it is exposed to the action of the air contained in the water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the
visceral arches on either side of the neck. In invertebrates they occupy various situations.
2. pl. (Bot.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
3. (Zoöl.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
4. The flesh under or about the chin. Swift.
5. (Spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or
wool into fewer parallel filaments. [Prob. so called from F. aiguilles, needles. Ure.]
Gill arches, Gill bars. (Anat.) Same as Branchial arches. — Gill clefts. (Anat.) Same as Branchial
clefts. See under Branchial. — Gill cover, Gill lid. See Operculum. — Gill frame, or Gill head
(Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. — Gill net, a
flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills
when they seek to extricate themselves. — Gill opening, or Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind and
below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the water from the gills is discharged.
In most fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the sharks and rays there are five, or more,
on each side. — Gill rakes, or Gill rakers (Anat.), horny filaments, or progresses, on the inside of
the branchial arches of fishes, which help to prevent solid substances from being carried into gill cavities.
Gill
(Gill), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]
