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 (Zoˆl.), any small gold-colored beetle of
the family ChrysomelidÊ; -- 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
Stúchas 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 (above).
-- 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. (Zoˆl.) 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) (Zoˆl.) 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 (Coptis
trifolia), 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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