1598. Shakspeare, 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. Young Talbot was not born To be the pillage of a giglot wench. 1600. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, vi., 72. That thou wilt gad by night in giglet-wise, Amid thine armed foes to seek thy shame. Gild, verb. (old).—To make drunk; to flush with drink. 1609. Shakspeare, Tempest, Act v., Sc. 1. This grand liquor that hath gilded them. 1620. Fletcher, Chances, iv., 3. Is she not drunk, too? A little gilded o’er, sir. To gild the pill, phr. (colloquial).—To say, or do, unpleasant things as gently as may be; to impose upon; to bamboozle (q.v.). Gilded Rooster, subs. phr. (American).—A man of importance; a howling swell (q.v.); sometimes the gilded rooster on the top of the steeple. Cf., big-bug; big dog of the tanyard, etc. 1888. New York Herald. We admit that as a metropolis Chicago is the gilded rooster on top of the steeple, but even gilded roosters have no right to the whole corn bin. Gilderoy’s Kite. To be hung higher than gilderoy’s kite, verb. phr. (old).—To be punished more severely than the very worst criminals. ‘The greater the crime the higher the gallows’ was at one time a practical legal axiom. Hence, out of sight; completely gone. Giles’ Greek. See St. Giles’ Greek. Gilguy, subs. (nautical).—Anything which happens to have slipped the memory; equivalent to what’s-his-name or thingamytight. Gilkes, subs. (old).—Skeleton keys. 1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark-all, p. 38 (H. Club’s Rept., 1874). Gilkes or the Gigger, false keyes for the doore or picklockes. Gill (or Jill), subs. (old).—1. A girl; (2) a sweetheart: e.g., ‘every Jack must have his Gill’; (3) a wanton, a strumpet (an abbreviation of gillian). For synonyms, see Jomer and Titter. 1586–1606. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. vii., ch. 37. The simplest gill or knave. 1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, Palandrina, a common queane, a harlot, a strumpet, a gill. 1620. Percy, Folio MSS., p. 104. There is neuer a Jacke for gill. 1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v. 2. (common).—a drink; a go (q.v.). 1785. Burns, Scots Drink. Haill breeks, a scone, and whisky gill. 3. in. pl. ‘g’ hard (colloquial).—The mouth or jaws; the face. See Potato-trap and Dial. 1622. Bacon, Historia Naturalis. Redness about the cheeks and gills. 1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, i. He ... draws all the parish wills, Designs the legacies, and strokes the gills of the chief mourners. b. 1738. Wolcot, Pindar’s Works (1809), i., 8. Whether you look all rosy round the gills, Or hatchet-fac’d like starving cats so lean. 1820. Lamb, Elia (Two Races of Men). What a careless, even deportment hath your borrower! what rosy gills! 1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, ch. viii. Binnie, as brisk and rosy about the gills as chanticleer, broke out in a morning salutation. 1884. Punch. He went a bit red in the gills.