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Silver :: Silver (n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the noble metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5..

Silvered :: Silvered (imp. & p. p.) of Silve.

Biddery Ware :: Biddery ware () A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened..

Species :: Species (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie..

Sternebrae :: Sternbergite (n.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black..

Silver :: Silver (n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.

Plate :: Plate (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver..

Oleaster :: Oleaster (n.) Any species of the genus Elaeagus. See Eleagnus. The small silvery berries of the common species (Elaeagnus hortensis) are called Trebizond dates, and are made into cakes by the Arabs..

Shilling :: Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency..

Negative :: Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture..

Hangnail :: Hangnail (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail..

Leucophyllous :: Leucophyllous (a.) Having white or silvery foliage.

Glaucus :: Glaucus (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white..

Bromize :: Bromize (v. t.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate..

Maneh :: Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver..

Bromyrite :: Bromyrite (n.) Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite..

Shine :: Shine (v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver..

Birch :: Birch (n.) A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta)..

Assay :: Assay (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin..

Argentate :: Argentate (a.) Silvery white.

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