silver

Adjective

1. Made from silver.
   • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling,...
   • But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost...
2. Made from another white metal.
3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
   • Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary. - 1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52
5. Premium, but inferior to gold.
6. Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.

   Coordinate Terms: silver-haired senior

7. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
   • a silver-voiced young girl

Noun

1. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.

   Synonyms: ☽ ☾

2. Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
   • […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. - 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:
3. Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
4. Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
5. A shiny gray color.
   • I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. - 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:
6. A silver medal.
7. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
   • And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of...

Verb

1. To acquire a silvery colour.
   • Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...] - 1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter...
   • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky...
2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
   • to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
   • For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep. - 1725, Homer, “Book X”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC,...
4. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
   • Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, / Unvex'd with all the cares of gain, / His head was ſilver'd o'er with age, / And long experience made him ſage; [...] - 1727, [John] Gay, “Introduction to the Fables. The Shepherd and...

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