Gold

n.	1.	(Bot.) An old English name of some yellow flower, - the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
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	1.	(Chem.) A metallic element of atomic number 79, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat (melting point 1064.4° C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.
	2.	Money; riches; wealth. For me, the gold of France did not seduce. - Shak.
	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. Age of gold See Golden age, under Golden. Dutch gold 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 (Zool.) 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. Gold cloth See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. - Knight. 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. Gold fever a popular mania for gold hunting. - B. Jonson. Gold field a region in which are deposits of gold. Gold finder a - One who finds gold. b - One who empties privies. Gold flower a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stœchas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus. - Swift. Gold foil thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf. Gold knobs (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 pheasant (Zool.) See under Pheasant. Gold plate a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. Gold of pleasure (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 - (Zool.) 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. Gold thread a - A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. 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. - Ure. 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. Jeweler's gold an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. Mosaic gold See under Mosaic.

Noun	1.	gold - coins made of gold
	2.	gold - a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room"; "he admired the gold of her hair" Synonyms: amber
	3.	gold - a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au
	4.	gold - great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson
	5.	gold - something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.; "the child was as good as gold"; "she has a heart of gold"
Adj.	1.	gold - made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" Synonyms: golden, gilded
	2.	gold - having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" Synonyms: gilded, gilt, golden, aureate

GOLD. A metal used in making money, or coin. It is pure when the metal is unmixed with any other. Standard gold, is gold mixed with some other metal, called alloy. Vide Money.

To find gold in your dream, signifies that your superior abilities will place you easily ahead of others. To see bars of gold and gold jewellery in your dream, signifies your carelessness with the spending of your money. To see golden tableware and flatware, denotes financial gain and stability. For a pregnant woman, to dream of gold, foretells that your expected child will be a girl.affluence, aluminum, americium, and pence, assets, aureate, aureateness, auric, bar, barium, beige, beryllium, bismuth, bottomless purse, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, buff, buff-yellow, bulging purse, bullion, cadmium, calcium, canary, canary-yellow, cash, cerium, cesium, chrome, chromium, circulating medium, citron, citron-yellow, cobalt, coin gold, coin silver, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, copper, coppery, cream, creamy, cupreous, cuprous, currency, dollars, dysprosium, easy circumstances, ecru, embarras de richesses, emergency money, erbium, europium, fallow, fallowness, ferrous, ferruginous, filthy lucre, flaxen, fortune, fractional currency, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gilded, gilt, gold nugget, gold-colored, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, holmium, independence, indium, ingot, iridium, iron, ironlike, lanthanum, lead, leaden, legal tender, lemon, lemon-yellow, lithium, lucre, luteolous, lutescent, lutetium, luxuriousness, magnesia, magnesium, mammon, managed currency, manganese, material wealth, medium of exchange, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, mintage, molybdenum, money, money to burn, moneybags, necessity money, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, nugget, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, opulence, opulency, or, osmium, palladium, pelf, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus, platinum, polonium, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, potassium, pounds, praseodymium, precious metals, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, promethium, property, prosperity, prosperousness, protactinium, quicksilver, radium, rhenium, riches, richness, rubidium, ruthenium, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, samarium, sand-colored, sandy, scandium, scrip, shillings, silver, silver-plated, silvery, six-figure income, sodium, soft currency, specie, steel, steely, sterling, straw, straw-colored, strontium, substance, tantalum, technetium, terbium, thallium, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, thulium, tin, tinny, titanium, treasure, tungsten, upper bracket, uranium, vanadium, wealth, wealthiness, wolfram, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellow stuff, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium