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occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium
in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened
by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See Carat.] Gold also
finds use in gold foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a toning
agent in photography.
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. Shak.
Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden. — Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, 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 (Zoöl.), 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. Knight. — Gold cloth. See Cloth of
gold, under Cloth. — 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. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson. — Gold fever, a popular
mania for gold hunting. — Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. — Gold finder. (a)
One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] Swift. — 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. — Gold foil, thin sheets of gold,
as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf. — Gold knobs or knoppes (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
— Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; — called also a pepito. — Gold
paint. See Gold shell. — Gold or Golden, pheasant. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant. — Gold plate,
a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. — Gold of pleasure. [Name
perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de-alegria.] (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) (Zoöl.) 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. [Eng.] — Gold thread. (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of
silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant so called from
its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States. — 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. [Obs.] — Jeweler's gold,
an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. — Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.
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