gilder (1), gylder

[Eng. gild; -er.] who guilds or overlays anything with gold. One "No conning artificer, caruer, painter, nor gylder , with such other lyke of what occupacyon soeuer the i be or haue bene to thy comoditie, shal neuermore be found againe." -Bale: Image , pt. iii. gilder (2), s. [GUILDER.] A coin, value about 35 cents. (Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iv. 1.) gild-Ing, pr. par., a. & s. [GILD, v.] 2005 gil-hoột-er, s. [Eng. gill (4), and hooter.] A provincial English name sometimes given to the screech-owl. gill (1), *gil, *gyll, gylle, s. [Dan. giælle; Sw. gala gill; Icel. gjölnar (pl.)=ills; Gael. gial =a jaw.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. In the same sense as II. 1. "The leviathan at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea." Milton: P. L. , vii. 415. 2. The flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl, as the wattles in a turkey. "The turkey cock hath great and swelling gills , and the hen hath le ." - Bacon : Natural History . 3. The flesh under or about the chin. "In many there is no palene at all; but, contrariwise, redne about the cheeks and gills."-Bacon: Natural History . II. Technically ( pl . ) : 1. Ichthy .: The branchise of fishes; a double row of long, compre ed, slender-pointed proce es, extending, like the teeth of a comb, from the convex side of a branchial arch, and supported by a delicate membrane. Gills may be free or fixed. In Myxinoids there are only gill-sacs. In some o eous fishes, certain of the branchial arches support only one series of proce es, called uniserial or half-gills; in most cases they have biserial or whole gills, Gills, as a rule, are pectinated; there are also, however, plicated and tufted gills. The main purpose of the gills is to expose the venous blood, in a state of minute subdivision, to the influence of streams of water. 2. Entom .: Hair or leaf-like proce es projecting from the body of some aquatic insects, and containing one or more trachese, and their ramifica. tions communicating with those of the body generally. Insects thus equipped do not need to rise to the surface of the water to breathe. ( Grif verb.) IMG:content-0455.png:[blocks in formation] Pope : Satires , i. 115. II. Photog.: The treatment of the finished daguerreotype-plate with a salt of gold-generally the hyposulphite of gold and soda-which determines the deposition of finely divided gold upon the vaporous mercurial deposit of which the picture consists. By this means permanence is imparted to the picture.