Gold

gōld, n. one of the precious metals much used for coin: money: riches: anything very precious: yellow, gold colour.— adj. made of or like gold.— ns. Gold′-beat′er , one whose trade is to beat gold into gold-leaf; Gold′-beat′ers′-skin , the outer coat of the cæcum of the ox; Gold′-beat′ing .— adj. Gold′-bound ( Shak. ), encompa ed with gold.— ns. Gold′-cloth , cloth woven with threads of gold; Gold′-crest , a golden-crested bird of genus Regulus ; Gold′-dig′ger , one who digs for or mines gold, esp. a placer-miner; Gold′-dust , gold in dust or very fine particles, as it is sometimes found in rivers.— adj. Gold′en , made of gold: of the colour of gold: bright: most valuable: happy: highly favourable.— v.t. to become golden.— ns. Gold′en-age , an early period in history, a time of innocence and happine ; Gold′en-eye , a species of oceanic ducks which breed in the Arctic regions, and are winter visitants of Britain.— adj. Gold′en-hilt′ed ( Tenn. ), having a hilt made of, or mounted with, gold.— adv. Gold′enly ( Tenn. ), splendidly, delightfully.— ns. Gold′en-rod , any herb of the genus Solidago , of the aster family; Gold′-fē′ver , a mania for seeking gold; Gold′-field , a region where gold is found; Gold′finch , the most beautiful of English finches, with very handsome plumage, in which black, crimson-red, yellow, and white are, in the adult male, exquisitely mingled; Gold′fish , a Chinese and Japanese fresh-water fish, nearly allied to the carp—in its native waters it is brownish, but when domesticated becomes golden-yellow; Gold′-foil , gold beaten into thin sheets, used by dentists; Gold′ilocks , Gold′ylocks , a common name for Ranunculus (q.v.); Gold′-lace , lace made of gold-thread; Gold′-leaf , gold beaten extremely thin, or into leaves; Gold′-lil′y , the yellow lily; Gold′-mine , a mine from which gold is dug; Gold′-plate , ve els and utensils of gold collectively; Gold′smith , a worker in gold and silver; Gold′spink ( Scot. ), the goldfinch; Gold′stick , the colonel of a regiment of life-guards who attends the sovereign on state occasions—he receives a gold rod with his commi ion; Gold′-thread , a ranunculaceous plant found from Denmark to Siberia, with evergreen leaves, resembling those of the strawberry: a thread formed of a strip of gold-leaf laid over a thread of silk; Gold′-wash′er , one who obtains gold by washing it from sand and gravel: a cradle or other implement for washing gold from auriferous dirt; Gold′-wire , wire made of or covered with gold.—Golden beetle, the name popularly given to many members of the Chrysomela genus of coleopterous insects, marked by their metallic splendour of colour; Golden bull (L. bulla aurea ), an edict i ued by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1356, mainly for the purpose of settling the law of imperial elections; Golden fleece , in Greek mythology, the fleece of the ram Chrysomallus, the recovery of which was the object of the famous expedition of the Argonauts—it gave its name to a celebrated order of knighthood in Austria and Spain, founded in 1429; Golden horde , the Kipchaks, a Turkic people, whose empire was founded in central and southern Ru ia by Batu in the 13th century; Golden legend (L. aurea legend a ), a celebrated medieval collection of lives of the greater saints, the work of Jacobus de Voragine (1230-98); Golden number for any year, the number of that year in the Metonic Cycle, and as this cycle embraces nineteen years, the golden numbers range from one to nineteen; Golden rose , a rose formed of wrought gold, and ble ed by the Pope in person on the fourth Sunday in Lent, usually presented to some Catholic prince. [A.S. gold ; Ice. gull , Ger. gold , Goth. gulth , Ru . zlato , Gr. chrysos .] Golf to Groove fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en.