From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gild
n 1: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he
joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society";
"men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen
today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild,
gild, lodge, order]
v 1: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
[syn: gild, begild, engild]