▪ I. † ˈgilden, n. Obs.
[a. OF. geldon.]
A pikeman.
| c 1440 Partonope 1236 An hundred thousand withouten arblasters Withoute gyldenes and archers. |
▪ II. † ˈgilden, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 gylden, 3–4 gulden(e, g(u)ylden, 4–5 gyldyn, 5 gildin, geldene, 6 guilden, -in, 3–7 gilden.
[OE. gylden = OFris. gulden, gelden, OS. guldîn (MDu. guldin, gulden, Du. gulden arch.), OHG. guldîn (MHG. guldîn, gülden, mod.G. gülden arch.), ON. gullenn (Sw. gyllen, Da. gylden), Goth. gulþein-s:—OTeut. *gulþīno-, f. *gulþo{supm} gold. See -en suffix4, and cf. golden.]
1. Made of gold, golden.
| Beowulf 2809 [He] dyde him of healse hring gyldenne. a 1000 Cædmon's Dan. 204 (Gr.) Þæt hie þider hweorfan wolden..to þam gyldnan ᵹylde. c 1200 Ormin 8179 Onn hiss hæfedd wærenn twa Gildene cruness sette. c 1205 Lay. 14298 Heo bar an hir honde ane guldene [c 1275 goldene] bolle. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 417/505 For-to ȝyue þis pouere Man bote ane guyldene ring. a 1300 Cursor M. 6632 (Gött.) Þai þat war in godes half..honurd noght þat gilden calf. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 522 Þe guldene ger þat þi gomus vsen Wiþ þe blasinge ble blenden þe sonne. a 1440 Sir Degrev. 279 Gleves gleteryng glente Opone geldene scheldus. c 1450 Cov. Myst. viii. (Shaks. Soc.) 76 Whan thou come to Iherusalem, to the gyldyn gate. |
| fig. a 1225 Ancr. R. 336 Þe middel weie of mesure is euer guldene. a 1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 225 Bituhhe muchel ant lutel is in euch worldlich þing þe middel wei ȝuldene [read guldene]. |
b. In renderings of χρυσόστοµος (‘Chrysostom’) ‘golden-mouthed’, the posthumous cognomen of the great preacher John archbishop of (Constantinople died 407).
| a 1300 Cursor M. 11380 Iohn gilden-moth sais wit þis dome þat [etc.]. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 5360 For Johan, wyth þe gilden mouth, þos says [etc.]. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xxix. (1869) 192 Þe which, as Gildene mouth seith, mown lede þe ship to hauene. |
2. Of the colour of gold; golden.
| 1580 Sidney Arcadia ii. (1622) 123 The next morning began a little to make a gilden shew of a good meaning. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 611 Never mine eyes in pleasant Springs behold The Azure Flax, the gilden Marigold. |
¶ 3. From the 16th c. occasionally misapprehended as a strong pa. pple. of gild v.1, and used instead of gilded.
| 1530 Tindale Answ. More Wks. (1573) 251 When he layth Timothe vnto my charge..then he weneth that he hath wonne his gilden spurres. 1573 Twyne æneid xi. H h j b, Their helmets fayer into the fier, and guilden swordes they threw. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 33 His hornes were gilden all with golden studs. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 59 The gilden piller Milliarium, erected at the head or top of the Rom. Forum. 1640 [see gilted quot. 1563]. 1880 Stoddard Castle in Air ii. 40 My barges ride With gilden pennons blown from side to side. |