Golden

[A. S. galden, gylden.] Made or consisting of gold. - Bright; shining; splendid; of a gold color; as, the golden sun, a golden harvest. - Excellent; valuable; happy; pure; innocent; as, the golden age. Preeminently favorable or auspicious; as, to win golden opinions. W. of Cashe.. Gold'en, a town of Ireland, co. of Tipperary, abt. 4 m. Gold'en Age. ( Myth . ) That time when, according to the traditions of most peoples and religions, the earth was the common property of man, and produced spontaneously all things nece ary for an enjoyable existence, The Greeks and Romans placed this golden age under the rule of Saturn; and many of their poets-as, for example, Hesiod, in his Works and Days , Aratus, Ovid, and above all Virgil, in the first book of the Georgics -have turned this poetic materiel to admirable account, and defined the gradual decadence of the world, as the silver, the bra , and the iron ages, holding out at the same time the consolatory hope that the pristine state of things will one day return. Gold'en Bridge, in New York, a post-village of West chester co., abt. 120 m. S. by E. of Albany. Gold'en Bridge, a village of Ireland, abt. 2 m. W.S. W. of Dublin; pop . abt. 1,000.