Gild

1. v. t. To make red with drinking.
2. v. t. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
3. v. t. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
4. v. t. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.