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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Gaud

· IPA /ɡɔd/
01 n. Trick; jest; sport.
  1. 1.
    Trick; jest; sport.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.[Obs.]
  3. 3.
    An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
02 v. i. To sport or keep festival.
  1. 1.
    To sport or keep festival.[Obs.]
03 v. t. To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
imp. & p. p. Gauded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gauding
  1. 1.
    To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.[Obs.]