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silvern, a. Now poet. and arch.|ˈsɪlvən|
Forms: α. 1 seol(o)fren, seolfryn, selfren, 3 selvren; 1 seolfern, 3 seoluern, 4 seluern. β. 1 syl(o)fren, silfren, 5 sylvryn; 4–5 syl-, silueren(e, 5 cil-, silueryn, siluern(e, 6–7 silverne, 6– silvern.
[OE. seolfren, silfren, etc., = OFris. selvirn, MDu. sil-, selverijn, sulveren (Du. zilveren, dial. zulveren), OS. silu-, siloƀrin (MLG. sulveren, LG. sülvern, silvern), OHG. silbarîn, silberîn (G. silbern), Goth. silubreins: see silver n. and -en4.]
1. Made of silver; consisting of silver.
αc888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiv. §8 Þa gyldenan stanas, & þa seolfrenan. a900O.E. Martyrol. 29 Aug., Hi pleᵹodon mid gyldenum applum on selfrenum disce. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1070, Hi namen þære twa gildene scrines & ix seolferne. c1205Lay. 22783 Þa bollen seoluerne mid wine iuulled. c1285in Anglia IV. 194 Mid selvrene stikke me shal gold graven. c1350Leg. Rood 29 Þat he wuste bi þe seluerne byȝe.
βa1000Boeth. Metr. xxi. 21 Gylden maðm, sylofren sincstan. a1300Cursor M. 6145 Þe folk of israel to boru Asked silueren vessel sere. 1382Wyclif Gen. xlv. 22 To Beniamyn he ȝaf thre hundryd silueren pens. 1420E.E. Wills (1882) 42 My Sylvryn Gyrdyll to Thomas Pertnale. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 26/3 In the which wound, we must impose a silvern or goulden pipe. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. vii. 227 White silverne swoord, and in his hand a pike. 1863Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 37 Not a bell, silvern or golden, but was ‘holy’. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 70 Make me chainlets, silvern, golden.
fig.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iii, As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden). 1868Silent Hour i. 4 Speech is, after all, not the silvern but the golden thing, when rightly used.
b. silvern wedding, = silver wedding (silver n. 21).
1880Daily Telegr. 29 Dec. 5/4 Silvern Weddings are celebrations of tolerably frequent occurrence nowadays.
2. Silver-coloured. rare.
1885Harper's Mag. Apr. 815/2 Silvern as a silver bream. 1885O. Crawfurd Woman's Reputation i, The little Ring⁓wood brook.., a silvern thread amid the green meadow-land. |