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Work printed with gold-size and the letters then covered with gold leaf or Dutch metal. *gold-proof, a. Proof against bribery or temptation by money. gold-rain, s. Pyrotechnics : Small cubes 1⁄2 inch square, used instead of stars for rockets, . Their composition is niter, 16 parts; sulphur, 10 parts; mealed powder, 4 parts; lamp-black, 3 parts; flowers of zinc and gum arabic each 1 part; treated in the same man ner as for stars. †gold-seed, s . pl . Bot.: Dog's-tail gra ( Cynosurus cristatus ). gold-shell, s. Powdered gold, or gold leaf, ground up with gum-water and spread on shells. It is used by artists, and is also called gold-paint. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0605.png:[blocks in formation] gold-en, *gild-ene, *gold-ene, *guld-ene, a . [A. S. gylden , from gold =gold; O. H. Ger. guldin ; O. Frís. gelden ; Dut. goulden ; Icel. gullinn ; Sw. gyllen, gylden; Dan. gylden ; Ger. golden . Golden is now pa ing out of use, its place being supplied by the substantive gold used adjectively; as, a gold key, not often now a golden key.] 1. Made of gold, consisting of gold. "He rauished apples fro the wakinge dragon: and his hande was the more heauie for the golden metall."Chaucer: Boecius , bk. v. 2. Of the color or luster of gold; yellow; gleaming or shining like gold. "Last night the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see!" Long fellow: Wreck of the Hesperus. 3. Ornamented, embroidered, or inlaid with gold "Thy golden coat." Shakesp .: Rape of Lucrece , 205. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0606.png:[blocks in formation] Golden opinions from all sorts of people." Shakesp.: Macbeth , i. 7. 7. Most favorable or auspicious; as, a golden op- port unity. *8. Fortunate, happy, prosperous. IMG:content-0607.png:[blocks in formation] Bot. The genus Chrysanthemum. golden-fly, s . Entom.: Chrysis, a genus of Hymenoptera, pos- se ed of metallic brilliance, reflected from green, ruby tint, . IMG:content-0608.png:[blocks in formation] "The golden age was first, when man, yet new, No rule but uncorrupted Reason knew; And, with a native bent, did good pursue." IMG:content-0609.png:[blocks in formation] golden-grease, s. A fee, a bribe. golden-hair, s . Bot.: Chrysocoma comaurea . golden-horde, s . Hist.: The tribe of Mongolian Tartars, which about 1724 established itself in Southern Ru ia. Entom.: The same as GOLDEN-BUG (q. v.). golden-legend, s. The Aurea legend a of the middle ages, a work written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the end of the thirteenth century. It is a hagiology or collection of lives of saints, and descriptions and histories of festivals. A translation of it was made and printed by Caxton in A. D. 1483. Long fellow made a portion of it popular by his poem of the same name. golden-lungwort, s. Bot.: Poly tri chum commune , one of the finest of mo es, with almost woody stems and large, firm leaves. It is found on heaths and mountain tracts. It is sometimes made into brooms. golden-marcasite, s. An old name for tin. golden-mean, s. one is neither burdened with the cares of riches nor depre ed by the nece ities of poverty. "Where'er he shines, oh Fortune, gild the scene, And angels guard him in the golden - mean !" II. Ethics: This term appears to have been adopted into the English language from Horace ( Odes ii. 10, 5), though there the poet is speaking of worldly circumstances [I.) rather than of moral duties. We find the virtue of moderation taught in Hesiod, and Cooke renders the pa age: "Let every action prove a mean confe ed A moderation is in all the best." Similar teaching may be found in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, and the latter lays it down in his Ethics that every virtue is a mean between two vices. Bot.: A composite plant, Hieracium pilosella , called in books the Common Mouse-ear Hawkweed. [HAWKWEED, HIERACIUM.] *golden-mouthed, a. 1. Eloquent: a translation of the Gr. chrysostomos , whence the name Chrysostom, from chrysos =gold, and stoma =a mouth. Entom.: A moth, Hydræcia nictitans, family the moon are within an hour the same as they were Apamido. when the cycle commenced. This was known at an early period, and the nineteen years'lunar cycle was adopted B. C. 433. To find the golden number of any particular year, make the accepted time of our one to the year for which the golden number is required, and divide by twenty; the quotient will IMG:content-0610.png:[blocks in formation] golden-fingered, a. Having golden fingers in a Lord's birth B. C. 4, the first year of a cycle; add figurative sense. "Golden-Angered Ind."-Marlowe. (Trench.) fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fa'l, father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, IMG:content-0611.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0612.png:[blocks in formation] *gold-fah, a. [A. S. goldfah .] Golden; gold colored. gold-finch, *gold-fynch, *gold-fynche, s. I. Literally: Ornith.: Car duel is elegans , a well-known bird belonging to the family Fringillide, and the subfamily Fringillinse. Bill pale horn colored, the tip black, the circumference at its base crimson, nape of the neck white; the top of the head, carpal por tions of the wing, the smaller wing coverts, and part of the surface of the primaries black; back and rump dusky brown, greater wing coverts, and part of the expanse of the others, gamboge yellow; under surface of the body dull white. It feeds on the seeds of thistles and other plants. It sings very sweetly. Its nest is neatly built of mo , twigs, roots, ., and is lined with wool. It is situated in bushes, hedges, or apple or pear trees in orchards. The eggs are four or five, spotted with purple and brown. "A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride Of painted plumes, that hopped from side to side." 2041 above. Dryden: Flower and Leaf, 106. II. Fig .: A sovereign, so called from its yellow color. ( Slang Dict .) gold-fin-ny, gold-sin-nỹ, s . [Eng. gold , and finny. Etym. of sinny doubtful. Can it have come from f of gold - finny , printed in old characters and misread s?] Ichthyol.: Crenilabrus norwegicus or cornubicus . It is yellowish-green, darker on the back, with longitudinal lines of a deeper color on the sides, and a black spot on each side near the base of the tail. Length, three or four inches. It is also called the Corkwing. [GOLDSINNY.]