Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

water gilding

Water gilding

Wa"ter gild"ing\ The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Water gilding is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Gilding and Gold Leafing www.quebrachoinc.com/Expert-Gilding Gilding Picture Frames and Other Artifacts for Centuries. Call Today

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for water gilding?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

Matching Quote

"In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;Ma mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush,—this the light-dust cloth,—which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still."

-Henry David Thoreau

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help