v.; also 7 beguild. [f. BE- + GILD.] trans. To cover with, or as with, gold.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVIII. xv. 318. Begilding (with the radiant beames she threw) His helme.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 47/1. To waste as muche to polish and be-guild As would a charitable Almes-house build.
1648. Earl Westmoreland, Otia Sacra (1879), 38. We may with Eloquence Beguild our Speech.
Hence Begilded, Begilt ppl. a.
1594. Carew, Tasso (1881), 60. Her beguil[d]ed lockes … betainted red, As gold growes ruddie.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Underwoods (1905), 155 (L.). Attir’d with Buckram Bride-laces beguilt: White sleeves, [etc.].
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. iv. Any Drawing room … were it never so begilt.
