Third person singular present tense of engild; covers with gold or makes golden.
From engild plus the regular third-person singular morpheme -s. This is the conjugated form used when the subject is he, she, it, or a singular noun.
In modern English, you almost never hear this conjugation, which makes historical texts using it feel delightfully antiquated and formal!
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