v. (UN-2 4.) Also Ungilding vbl. sb. (also attrib.)
1611. Cotgr., Dedorer, to vngild.
1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. 1851, III. 238. By all this wee may conjecture, how little wee neede feare that the unguilding of our Prelates will prove the woodening of our Priests.
1651. Stanley, Poems, 209. Night began to ungild the skies.
1743. Young, Nt. Th., V. 174. Vice sinks in her allurements, is ungilt, And looks, like other objects, black by night.
1873. E. Spon, Workshop Rec., Ser. I. 205/2. Iron and steel articles are ungilt … by dipping them into [etc.]. Ibid. Removing the gold from articles … which cannot be submitted to the ungilding bath.
