3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid
and genuine.
Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells
are made.
Gile (?), n. [See Guile.] Guile. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gill (?), n. [Dan. giÊlle, gelle; akin to Sw. g‰l, Icel. gjˆlnar gills;
cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw.] 1. (Anat.) An organ for aquatic
respiration; a branchia.
Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
Ray.
Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages, through which the
blood circulates, and in which it is exposed to the action of the air
contained in the water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the
visceral arches on either side of the neck. In invertebrates they
occupy various situations.
2. pl. (Bot.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under
surface of a mushroom.
3. (Zoˆl.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a
wattle.