3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.
Shak. Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden.
— Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust,
etc.
— Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California,
composed of gold and mercury.
— Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf.
— Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large
intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during
the process of gold-beating.
— Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family
Chrysomelidæ; — called also golden beetle.
— Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by
means of an engraved block. Knight.
— Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth.
— Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.
— Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7.
— Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by
digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing.
— Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
— Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A
goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he
looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson.
— Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting.
— Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold.
— Gold finder. (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies.
[Obs. & Low] Swift.
— Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow
radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stoechas of Southern
Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus.
— Gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others.
See Gold leaf.
— Gold knobs or knoppes (Bot.), buttercups.
— Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.
— Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.
— Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used
for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.
— Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein.
— Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations,
as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf.
Gold diggings (above).
— Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; -
- called also a pepito.
— Gold paint. See Gold shell.
— Gold or Golden, pheasant. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant.
— Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons,
etc., made of gold.
— Gold of pleasure. Etym: [Name perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de-
alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Camelina, bearing yellow
flowers. C. sativa is sometimes cultivated for the oil of its seeds.
— Gold shell. (a) A composition of powdered gold or gold leaf,
ground up with gum water and spread on shells, for artists' use; —
called also gold paint. (b) (Zoöl.) A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra)
of the Atlantic coast; — called also jingle shell and silver shell.
See Anomia.
— Gold size, a composition used in applying gold leaf.
— Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of
gold, two of silver, and four of copper.
— Gold stick, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who
attends his sovereign on state occasions; — so called from the gilt
rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission
as colonel of the regiment. [Eng.] — Gold thread. (a) A thread
formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel
and iron bobbins; spun gold. Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant
(Coptis trifolia), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is
common in marshy places in the United States.
— Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread.
— Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book
covers, or the ornamental impression so made.
— Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated
from lighter material by washing.
— Gold worm, a glowworm. [Obs.] — Jeweler's gold, an alloy
containing three parts of gold to one of copper.
— Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.
GOLD-BEATEN
Gold"-beat`en, a.
Defn: Gilded. [Obs.]
GOLD-BEATING
Gold"-beat`ing, n.
Defn: The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.
GOLD-BOUND
Gold"-bound`, a.
Defn: Encompassed with gold.
GOLDCREST
Gold"crest`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); — called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.