silvern.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪlvə/, U.S.

/ˈsɪlvər/

Forms: α. Old English siolfor ( siolofr-, siolufr-), seolfor, seolfur, seolfer ( seolfr-, seulfr-), Middle English seoluer ( seolur-, seolure), soluer, solure. β. Middle English selfer ( selfr-), selfur; Middle English seluer ( selur-, zeluer), selver. γ. Old English sylofr, sylfor, sylfur, Middle English syluer, sylure; Old English sulfer ( suulfr-), Middle English suelfer, suluer. δ. Old English silofr, Middle English sillferr; Middle English–1600s siluer (Middle English silure, siluere, 1500s–1600s Scottish silwer), Middle English– silver; Middle English–1500s siluir, silvir (Middle English siluire, siluyre); Middle English syluere ( cyluere), Middle English–1600s syluer (Middle English cyl-), Middle English–1600s sylver (Middle English sylfer, 1500s sylvar); Middle English syluyre, syluir, Middle English–1500s sylvir; Middle English sylure, sylwor, 1500s syluur. ε. Scottish1500s syller, 1500s– siller.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English siolfor, seolfor, etc., = Old Frisian selover, selver (later selvir, silver; West Frisian sulver, dialect selver), Old Low Frankish silver (Middle Dutch silver, selver, sulver, Dutch zilver), Old Saxon siluƀar, siloƀar (Middle Low German and Low German silver, sülver, sulver, etc.), Old High German sil(a)bar, silbir, etc. (Middle High German and German silber), Old Norse silfr (Icelandic silfur, Swedish silfver; Middle Swedish silf, self, sylf, Norwegian sylv, Danish sølv), Gothic silubr. Related forms are found in the Balto-Slavonic languages, as Old Church Slavonic sĭrebro, Russian serebro, Polish śrebro, etc., Lithuanian sidabras, Latvian sudrabs; as to the relationship of these and the ultimate origin of the word no definite conclusions have been established.

A. n.

a. One of the precious metals (in general use ranking next to gold), characterized in a pure state by its lustrous white colour and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Ag.Various forms of the metal, pure or mixed with other substances, are distinguished by defining terms, as antimonial, bromic, horn, native, red, ruby silver; capillary, shell silver, etc. The name is also given to several natural or artificial substances resembling or imitating the real metal, as cat, German, inflammable, mock silver.

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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [noun]

silverc825

moona1500

Ag1814

Tree of Diana1849

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > silver

silverc825

lunac1386

argenta1533

plate1559

Diana1706

β.

c825 Vesp. Psalter lxv. 10 Swe mid fyre bið amearad seolfur.

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvii. 268 Ðonne bið hit swiðe leaslice on siolofres [v.r. siolufres] hiewe.

971 Blickl. Hom. 127 Nu hit is mid golde & mid seolfre gefrætwod.

a1175 Cott. Hom. 227 Hi worhtan ham anlicnessen, sum of golde, sum of selfre.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 493 Þeos maumez beoð imaket of gold, & of seoluer.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 4/115 Of seluer and of gold one riche schrine heo wrouȝte.

a1400 Bible (Paues) 1 Cor. iii. 12 Gold, oþer selfer, oþer precyous stones.

1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 32 vj disshes & vj Sawcers of seluer.

δ. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John p. 188 Mid suulfre ofer~gylded.OE Riddle 14 2 Nu mec wlonc þeceð geong hagostealdmon golde ond sylfore.a1300 E.E. Psalter lxv. 9 Þou fraisted vs, als siluer fraisted isse.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xi. 7 Imange all metalles nan is þat swetterly chymes þan syluere.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 77 Cyluer, argentum.1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 42 A peyre of bedys of sylvir.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi^v Saynt Gregory..sayth, that electrum is a myxture of syluer & golde myngled togyther.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 104 Deck't with Coperasse, With Gold and Siluer, Lead and Mercurie.1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B4^v There likewise should you behold a Mine of Siluer, ambitiously aspiring to bee as glorious Gold.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 269 The Silver here, and all over the Kingdom of Mexico, is said to be finer and richer in proportion than that of Potosi or Peru.a1771 T. Gray tr. T. Tasso in Wks. (1814) II. 92 Sulphureous veins and living silver shine.1779 Mirror No. 17 A crooked piece of silver, which he, at first, mistook for a shilling.1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 42 Silver..burns more readily than platinum or gold.1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 359 Silver is obtained from its ores chiefly by roasting, crushing, and amalgamation with mercury.figurative.a1628 J. Preston Breast-plate of Faith (1631) 187 The good~man..there is silver and golde in his speeches and actions, that is, they are likewise precious.1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 45 His tongue was silver and his heart was fire.ε. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. i. sig. Bii^v As bright as any syller,..& straight as any pyller.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i With spraings like gowd, and siller cross'd with black.

†b. transferred. Quicksilver. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > mercury

quicksilvereOE

mercuryc1395

argent-vive1453

hydrargyrum1563

silver1607

spirit1661

quick1852

1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. E1 Siluer selfe-mouing, we call Siluer-quick.

c. With a and plural. A piece or strip of silver.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > silver > piece or strip of silver

silver1856

1856 Orr's Circle Sci., Pract. Chem. 80 They are connected, all the zincs by one wire, and all the silvers by another wire.

d. elliptical for silver medal n. at Compounds 2a (see sense silver cord n. (a) at Compounds 2a below).

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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes

garland?a1513

plate1639

cupc1640

dog plate1686

gold medal1694

gold cup1718

sweepstake1773

trophy1822

bronze medal1852

shield1868

statuette1875

pot1885

team honours1895

letter1897

silver medal1908

school colour1913

gold1945

bronze1960

silver1960

Fed Cup1965

1960 Times 5 Sept. 4/6 Hill..was representing a Germany united for Olympic purposes, which won three gold and a silver.

1968 Guardian 22 Oct. 1/1 Major Alhusen, aged 55, won the silver in the individual event, and was only two points off taking the gold.

1979 ‘D. Grant’ Moscow 5000 i. 19 Notes that would help him to win an Olympic medal. Because he would have the Silver, he told himself.

a. The metal regarded as a valuable possession or medium of exchange; hence, silver coin; also (chiefly Scottish), money in general.

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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

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ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

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(the) Spanish1788

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kelter1807

dibs1812

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L. S. D.1835

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nobbins1846

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cheese1850

California1851

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boodle?1856

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the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

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soap1860

sugar1862

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filthy1876

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ooftish1877

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oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) silver coin

silverc825

platea1275

whitea1393

white money1423

argentc1500

pringle1683

α.

c825 Vesp. Psalter civ. 37 Dryhten..utalædde hie in seolfre & golde.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John p. 188 Æhtu ora seulfres.

a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1102 Þeofas..þær inne naman mycel to gode on golde & on seolfre.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7509 Ȝe.. senden after cnihtes & ȝeuen heom soluer & gold.

c1275 in Old Eng. Misc. 89 Habbe he þe yeftes of seoluer and of golde.

β. a1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Ne haue ðu hope te golde ne to seluer.c1250 Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 188 Euer of þe purse þat seluer heo tulleþ.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 6 Aye þise heste zeneȝeþ þo þet to moche louieþ hire guod gold oþer zeluer.1472 Presentmts. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 24 Yf it cane be prewyd þat he his bed [= is bid] no selver tharfor.a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 745 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 324 Seluer he [sc. the almoner] deles rydand by way.γ. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlviii. 368 Gold & sylofr ic him sealde genoh.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 9 Nallas ge agnege gold ne sulfer [Rushw. sylfur] ne feh on gyrdilsum iurum.1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1135 Wua sua bare his byrthen gold & sylure.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1783 Wenne þu wult more suluer [c1300 Otho seoluer] sæche hit at me suluen.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7779 Þe king in such manere suluer wan ynou.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 116 Þe meyre hue by~souhte Of alle suche sellers suluer to take.δ. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlviii. 368 Ðonne he doð..ðæt silofr to diofolgieldum.1128 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1128 Se kyng..micele gersumes him geaf on gold & on silure.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 228 [They] waren al to gradi of siluer and of golde.c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4434 He sal gyf þam..Of gold and silver gret plente.1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 20 Þe siluer þat schal be reseyvyd for þe londes.1484 Coventry Leet Bk. 517 To gedur syluer for the Reparacion of the same.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 385 The vther..Concludit schortlie for to slea him, For vyling of his syluer fra him.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxii. 295 I meane by profitable plants, those, which..bring silver to theyr maisters.1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 201 He hath bequeathed all his siluer to me: ergo, his ready money.1800 P. Gosein Narr. Journey of Teshoo Lama in Acct. Embassy to Court of Teshoo Lama 471 He afterwards distributed silver, to the amount of four lacks of rupees.1845 R. Browning Lost Leader in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 1 Just for a handful of silver he left us.ε. c1720 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser i Am I forc'd to die, And nae mair my dear siller see?1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 Ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller.1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vii. 148 She'll hae a hantle siller.1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 48 Nobody will lend him siller.1896 W. Harvey Kennethcrook 52 (E.D.D.) It was seldom the weaver would come to any terms other than ‘siller doon’.

†b. The price in silver of something. Obsolete. rare.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price in silver

silver1411

1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 Þat alle þe londes..be sold, and þe Siluer þere-of spendyd to þe avauncement of lucie, my dowter.

3. Articles made of silver or an alloy of silver; silverware, silver-plate.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver > articles

silvera1400

presentation silver1511

silver-work1535

silver plate1610

silverware1862

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 1156 He dude seruen Olympias In golde, in siluer [v.r. seolver], in bras, in glas.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxvi In siluer sa semly þai serue þame of the beste.

c1479 Inventory of Plate in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 602 ij lynen bagges..with broke siluer and j old harneis gilt.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 313 The Persians for the most part eat in Porcellane or earth, not valuing Silver.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. vi. 108 The profusion of gold and silver, that glittered on the sideboards.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 188 [He] Sipt wine from silver.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 41 For cups and silver on the burnish'd board Sparkled and shone.

plural.1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights xii, in Poems 55 A million tapers flaring bright From wreathéd silvers.

4. The metal as used for the ornamentation of textile fabrics; silver thread. cloth of silver: see cloth of silver at cloth n. 9c.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver

goldOE

fildora1350

gold or silk threadc1386

purl1394

silver1423

shreda1450

Venice gold1506

Venice silver1574

spun gold1728

passing1848

tambour1899

1423 Rolls of Parl. IV. 255/1 Brauderie..wrought with Gold or Silver of Cipre.

1566 in D. H. Fleming Mary Q. of Scots (1897) 499 Ten hankis off gold and ten hankis of silver the fynest that can be gottin.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 18 Cloth a gold and cuts, and lac[']d with siluer .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 69 Her Bed-chamber..was hang'd With Tapistry of Silke, and Siluer .

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel v. xvi. 141 His cloak was all of Poland fur, His hose with silver twined.

5. As a tincture in heraldry, more commonly called argent n. 3, but cf. quot. 1869.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > silver or white

silver1478

argent1562

moon1572

pearl1572

seraphim1586

luna1709

crystal1830

1478 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1909) 9 384 A cross engrayled gold or bythwen foure rosses silver, and to his tymbre a gauntellet sillver sette in a wrethe gold.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 415 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 A lyoun..Of siluer ȝe se shold To Ramp in array.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 4 Called Siluer, and blased by the name of Argent.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Metal In Engraving [arms], Gold is expressed by dotting the Coat, &c. all over; Silver, by leaving it quite blank.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxxii. 215 Saint Andrew's cross, in blazonry Of silver, waving wide!

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) iii. 48 In blazoning a charge..supposed to be actually composed of metal..the terms gold and silver must be employed.

6. A silvery colour or lustre.

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the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light > of specific colour or lustre

silver1481

pearliness1760

metallic1976

the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > silveriness

silver1481

argentry1852

silveriness1856

moonlight1904

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 80 Wherin stode somme strange hystoryes whiche were of gold, of sable of siluer.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 150 By yonder blessed Moone I sweare, That tips with siluer all these fruit trees tops.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 310 The willow such, And poplar, that with silver lines his leaf.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 106 See the pale azure fading into silver.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lviii. 527 There were scarce three lines of silver in her soft brown hair.

1896 W. Black Briseis xvii A swan came breasting along,..leaving behind it two flashing divergent lines of silver.

a. A variety of insect, fish, bird, etc., having silvery colouring or markings.

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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > silver coloured animal

silver1832

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [noun] > specific colours

silver1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 76 The Tawny Silver.

1875 Spectator (Melbourne) 19 June 81/1 Common fish, such as..garfish, strangers, silvers, and others.

1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 96 Silvers are divided into what is called brown barred and black-barred.

1903 F. Simpson Bk. Cat xii. 138 At present our silvers are too full of tabby markings.

1934 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 211 There are four distinct species of salmon which run up the Columbia: the chinook, silver, sockeye, and chum.

1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 72/3 The other five salmon species, all on the Pacific Coast, are the Chinook (also called the king salmon), the sockeye, the silver, the humpback, and the chum.

b. Photography. A salt of silver, esp. nitrate of silver.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer

emulsion1840

collodion1851

sensitizer1854

nitrate bath1858

collodio-bromide1864

organifier1873

silver bath1878

bromide emulsion1885

silver1891

sensibilizer1900

panchromatic1906

nuclear emulsion1949

1891 in Cent. Dict.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 61 In the dark room add the silver to the collodion.

B. adj.

a. Made or consisting of silver.These collocations may be employed as the base of formations like silver medallist (see silver cord n. (a) at Compounds 2a), silver trumpeter, etc.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > silver > made of silver

silvernc888

silver1032

argentinea1538

1032 in Anglia XI. 8 Do hi ealle to gædere þæt þritig seolfor sticca.

?1366 Romaunt Rose 97 A sylvre nedle forth I drogh Out of an aguiler.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8242 A siluer cercle.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4858 He..did a siluer cupe at hide, In a sek.

1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 58 One of my siluere girdeles.

1457–8 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 297 To ber ii. sylver masys befor the Baylyfys.

1486 Bk. St. Albans c vij Clense theym clene with a syluer spone.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 270/1 Sylver vessell, uessaile dargent.

1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 114 Quhy iuge ȝe the goldin and siluir chalissis?

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 33 The manufacture of gold and sylver thrydd.

1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 440 I am sure without this my Lord St. Alban's would not have left a silver spoon in the house.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion v. 55 I caused a Watch to be suspended by a little Silver-chain.

1725 Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 83 Plenty of silver tumblers.

1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 79 The size of the watch is something less than a silver two-pence.

1808 W. Scott in Lockhart (1869) III. xviii. 159 I..have only hopes that he may be shot with a silver bullet.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 345/1 The British silver coinage consists of crowns, half-crowns [etc.].

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 84 You will value the old silver inkstand.

b. In figurative contexts. (See also spoon n.)

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1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. v. 764 We schollers fish for a liuing in these shallow foardes without a siluer hoock.

1605 N. Breton Honour of Valour viii. 5 in Wks. (1966) I To fish for honour with a siluer hooke.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Combattre Those that with siluer weapons fight are sure to ouercome.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 2 The Silver Key will open the strongest Gates of the strictest Monastery.

1798 W. Hutton Life 41 I was given to understand that the door, contrary to other doors, would not open with a silver key.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel v. xiii. 139 True love..is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie [etc.].

1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xiii. 22 They may be bribed, as we proved..when our cavalcade passed the barriers with a silver key.

c. Containing threads of silver, or some imitation of this.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > metallic

silver1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Threads of pure Silver, interwove like a Silver Galoon, that has been burnt to get out the Silk.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 298 Silver-twist-hackle. Dub with the herl of an ostrich feather.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-lace, wire coated with silver, and woven into lace.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 225/1 The Gold and Silver Laces of the present day consist of warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton combined.

d. Mounted or plated with silver; wrapped in silvered paper.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with silver

harnessed1426

silver-headed1760

silver-studded1882

silver1898

1898 Daily News 6 Apr. 5/3 The prizes include silver handglasses and scent-bottles.

1904 Windsor Mag. Jan. 238/2 Tiny silver comfits wedged into every available little space.

a. Producing or yielding silver.

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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > silver

silver1478

silverish1648

argentific1671

argentiferous1801

silvery1870

1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 28 Beereferys vbi lez syluer mynes fodiuntur.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 798 Hec argentifodina, a sylverquarelle.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Argentaria fodina, a..syluer myne.

c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 1 The precious earth of golde and siluer mines.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zilver-ader, a Silver-veine.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 6 With all the Silver Mountains of Peru.

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 257 They have for a long time been working it as a rich silver mine.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall x. 284 As true silver-lodes are found in it, it may also be termed argentiferous.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 344 Some promising silver~lodes have lately been taken up.

1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 9 A promising market for various silver properties.

b. U.S. (See quot. 1896.)

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1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/1 The ‘Silver Senators’—that is, the representatives of silver-producing States.

a. Of or pertaining to, connected with, characteristic of, silver.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > silver

silver?1605

lunar1801

argental1816

?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. T2 Riuers of Nectar ran an [sic] golden Sand (With siluer-cleerenesse) through that Pardice.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. iv. 262 The..gold-smith in the siluer-streete.

1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 33 Near to which are conveniently placed the Smelting and Refining Mills, which therefore are called the Silver Mills.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. ii. i. 324 White Silver Ore, or of a silver-colour, from Cremnitz in Hungary.

1813 Edinb. Rev. 22 148 Von Buch engaged a place in the silver-waggon.

1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 158/1 Our gold and silver standards similarly stated would be 917 and 925 respectively.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 73/2 This alleged fall, its causes, consequences, and remedies, constitute the ‘Silver Question’.

b. Denoting compounds of which silver forms a part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [adjective] > in compounds

silver1797

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 442/1 Some silver amalgama is pressed upon it through a chamois skin.

1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 8 Silver-salts exposed to light become black by the absorption of oxygen.

1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 359 When chlorine gas is passed over fused silver fluoride, silver chloride is formed.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 123/1 Gold of 20 carats with 4 carats of silver alloy.

c. Of or pertaining to silver articles or silverware.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [adjective] > relating to gold or silver articles

goldc1230

friezed1587

silver1648

Paul Revere1882

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zilver-schappraeye, a Silver-cupboord.

1686 London Gaz. No. 2149/4 Whoever shall give notice thereof unto any Officer of the King's Silver Scullery, shall have two Guinea's Reward.

1725 London Gaz. No. 6364/1 The Officers of the Board of Greencloth, or Silver Scullery.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Apr. 5/1 Finding that the silver trade has rejected..what he proposed as a boon.

d. Advocating, relating to, etc., the adoption of silver as a currency or standard.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [adjective] > types of currency system

bimetallic1876

monometallic1877

silver1879

monometallist1886

trimetallic1887

bimetallistic1889

symmetallic1895

off-gold1935

single currency1952

1879 Bradstreet's 22 Oct. 5/1 The silver men are as violent and rampant as ever.

1890 Daily News 10 Feb. 2/4 Why should we not have stored bullion instead? Silver men will probably answer [etc.].

1893 Nation 29 June 467/1 The very little game which our silver-bugs..are trying to play on us.

1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 271 The silver cabal won at every point.

a. Used for holding (silver) money. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [adjective] > attributes of purse

silver1526

well-lined1573

1526 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 402 Every man or woman which makith aquavitie, honied alle [or] singill alle to be ratiffied and sold, to paye the accostomid ratte to the silver boxe.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 148 Gin ony..has na lous'd his siller pocks.

a1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 110 Misers make Their heaven o' a siller bag.

†b. Scottish. Of payments, etc.: Made or levied in (silver) money. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [adjective] > made or levied in silver

silver1579

1579 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 143 To pay to thame the..sylvir prices and maillis of the samyn.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Firmarius Firma signifies the duty quhilk the tennent paies to the landis-lord, quhidder it be siluer-maill, victuall, or vther duetie.

a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 332 Setting..lyff-rents successive for peyment of small silver-dewtie.

a1688 in G. Dallas Syst. Stiles (1697) 279 Which Lands..amount in yearly free Rent..to [so much] Silver-Rent.

1764 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) iv. ii. 450 Even intromission with the silver rent.

c. Played for stakes in silver coin.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [adjective] > played for high stakes

high1640

silver1748

no-limit1915

high-stakes1922

1748 H. Walpole Let. 26 May (1846) II. 223 There were silver pharaoh and whist for the ladies.

a. Having the whiteness or lustre of silver; silvery. Chiefly poetic. silver lining: see lining n.¹ 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > silvery

whiteOE

silverc1405

silverish1530

argentine1578

argenta1593

silver-coloured1594

silver-white1598

silver-like1611

silvery1611

argenteous1881

silvern1885

the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light > of or like precious stones, metals, or fabrics > with a silvery lustre

silverc1405

silver-coloured1594

silveredc1600

silvery1611

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > expression of optimism [phrase]

never feara1593

silver lininga1616

(it will be) all right on the night1908

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 636 And firy Phebus..dryeth in the greues The siluer dropes hangynge on the leues.

c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 937 The freshnes of the clere wellys..Made the colde siluer stremes To shyne ageyn the sonne bemes.

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 1316 The lusty Silvir dewh in the grene meedys.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 410 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 Ane..bure in till asure..Siluer sternis so faire.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 46 This precious stone set in the siluer sea.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 112 Here lay Duncan, His Siluer skinne, lac'd with his Golden Blood.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 32 Fair Galathea, with thy silver Feet, O, whiter than the Swan.

a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 86 Yonder Star..with silver light Relumes her crescent orb to cheer the dreary night.

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 202 In gentler climes their silver currents flow.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xii A lodging..which looked out upon the silver Thames (for Thames was silver then).

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iv. xv. 257 Brightening more and more with the silver dawn.

b. Of the hair, beard, or head, when white with age. Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary

grey1207

hoarc1290

frostya1450

forhoaredc1450

grizzled1458

hoary1530

hoared1557

greyish1567

wintry1579

silver1590

silveredc1600

silver-grey1607

frosted1628

iron-grey1809

iron-greyed1826

grizzly1843

1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. E^v Auncient men, vpon whose siluer heads the Almond-tree hath blossomde.

1592 J. Lyly Midas ii. i If one be olde, & haue siluer haires on his beard.

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. i. sig. H4 This speech hath siluer haires, and reuerence asks.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. xl. 94 Her silver heads adorning (Her dotage index).

1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs II. x. 275 The long silver beard..hung over his hands.

1842 Ld. Tennyson May Queen (new ed.) Concl. iv, in Poems (new ed.) I. 170 O blessings on his kindly heart and on his silver head!

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxii. 115 To reverence and the silver hair.

in extended use.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 43 You (lord Archbishop)..Whose beard the siluer hand of Peace hath toucht. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 60 in Poems No silver rev'rence guards the stooping age.

a. Of sounds: Having a clear gentle resonance like that of silver; soft-toned, melodious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > gentle or not harsh > gentle and clear

silver1526

liquida1637

flute-like1729

fluty1823

silvery1824

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > timbre or quality > pure or clear

brightOE

silver1526

silvered1642

purea1791

silvery1824

pellucid1952

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. CCCiii We shall yelde a benigne & gentyll answere, & gyue a swete syluer sounde as the tryed syluer.

1592 N. Breton C'tess Penbrooke's Love vii Some brought in musicke of most siluer sounde.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 93 A Swaine (with Lawrell crown'd) Marrying his sweet Noates with their siluer sound.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiii, in Poems 7 Let your silver chime Move in melodious time.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 426 The vaulted roof..Reflecting to the Queen the silver sounds.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Viol d'amour It yields a kind of silver sound, at once so soft, sweet, and tender, as to have given birth to the name by which it is known.

1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. iii. 53 He recalled..her silver voice.

1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes 160 A mingled stream of music, light, and silver laughter.

b. Eloquent, persuasive, sweet-spoken.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent

well-speakingOE

renablec1300

fair-speakinga1398

well-tonguedc1480

honey-mouthed1539

golden-mouthed1542

sweet-mouthed1542

fine-mouthed?1549

silver-tongued1592

silver1594

gold-mouthed1595

honey-tongued1595

nectar-tongued1596

tongue-gilt1608

feather-tongueda1618

chrysostomatical1623

dulciloquent1656

sweet-spoken1716

sweet-lipped1783

chrysostomic1816

smooth-spoken1821

superfluent1822

honey-lipped1833

nice spoken1852

articulate1892

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > mellifluous

sugaredc1440

mellifluous?a1475

sugratife1509

sugurat?a1513

sugary1591

silver1594

silken1598

mellfluvious1600

mellifluent1601

1594 in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 12 As worthie subjects of your silver pen.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 35 Serjeant such a one has a Silver Tongue at the Bar.

1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek iv It must be such a silver tongue as never yet spoke that could persuade any nation [etc.].

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xv, in Writings I. 150 Mr...Crawley; to whose silver tongue the world owed the liberty of many a ruffian.

1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 198 I..would give my eyes for..the silver tongues of them.

7. poetic.

a. Soft, gentle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adjective]

stillc825

tamec888

nesheOE

mildeOE

softOE

lithea1000

daftc1000

methefulOE

sefteOE

meekc1175

benign1377

pleasablea1382

mytha1400

tendera1400

unfelona1400

mansuetea1425

meeta1425

gentlec1450

moy1487

placablea1522

facile1539

effeminate1594

silver1596

mildya1603

unmalicious1605

uncruel1611

maliceless1614

tender-hefteda1616

unpersecutive1664

baby-milda1845

rose water1855

turtlish1855

unvindictive1857

soft-boiled1859

tenderful1901

soft-lining1967

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg5^v All the night in siluer sleepe I spend.

b. Prosperous, happy. Cf. silver age n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places

golden?a1439

wealthyc1460

Saturnian1592

silver1659

millenary1700

heroic1793

Pericleana1822

flush1840

millennial1859

belle époque1957

1659–60 Ph. Skippon's Petit. to Citie of London 1 Alas, those Silver daies are done, and this iron Age hath overtaken your poor Petitioner.

8. Of or pertaining to the silver age of Latin (see silver age n. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary period

classical1546

preclassic1869

Gustavian1884

silver1889

pre-classical1948

Sangam1955

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of or relating to Latin > silver age of Latin

silver1889

1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop 14 Some of the fables..were products of Silver Latinity.

1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 487 In any given passage in a silver Latin author.

1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 487 One of the best-known authors of the silver period, Juvenal.

Compounds

C1.

a. Objective or objective genitive:

(a) With agent-nouns, as silver-chaser, silver-lover, silver-miner, etc.

ΚΠ

a1400 Bible (Paues) Acts xix. 24 For one, whos name was Demetrye, þat was a siluer-maker,..he gafe [etc.].

1483 Cath. Angl. 340/1 A Syluer maker or keper, argentarius.

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 242 Those sordid silver-lovers..being courtiers had a fair opportunity.

1692 London Gaz. No. 2770/4 A Silver-spinner in Bunhill-fields.

1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 713 I being a Silver-Spinster.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 153 Mr. Mansel, silver polisher, in Corbet-court.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Silver-beater, one that foliates silver.

1815 Niles' Reg. VIII. 141/2 There are..2 silver platers; 3 trunk makers [etc.].

1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 731 The silver-piercer sits at the silversmiths' and jewellers' ordinary work-bench.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 77 She is alive,..and is married to a silver-chaser.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-plater, an electrotyper.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad vi. 57 To speak after the fashion of the silver miners.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1195/2 The bane of the gold and silver miner.

(b) With present participles, as silver-bearing, silver-producing, silver-shaming, etc.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 229 Sad sighes, deepe grones, nor siluer-shedding teares.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. E3^v Sitting alone..Close by a Silver-shedding Brook.

a1699 J. Beaumont Whiteness in Compl. Poems (1880) 241/1 The Silver-shaming Grace Of the Moon's unclouded Face.

c1710 T. Yalden To Sir H. Mackworth xiv The Silver-shedding Beams of Orient Light.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 251 2 to 3 feet of silver-bearing quartz.

1888 Daily News 5 Apr. 5/2 If Lancashire depends for custom upon silver-using countries to this extent.

1891 Daily News 23 Feb. 5/7 The popular reaction against free coinage continues, extending even to the silver-producing States.

(c) With verbal nouns or nouns of action, as silver-mining, silver-plating, silver-reduction.

ΚΠ

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 25/1 The art of silver-plating was introduced at Sheffield about the middle of the last century.

1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 47 The vats used for ordinary silver-plating are about twenty-four or thirty inches deep.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It p. iv The silver-mining fever in Nevada.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining p. ix In all silver-reduction works.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 245 The silver-mining of Beaver Head County.

b. Parasynthetic and instrumental, of the types silver-armed, silver-axled, silver-bearded, silver-bowed, silver-breasted, etc.; silver-bound, silver-mounted, etc.Such combinations have been very extensively used, esp. in poetry, and the number which might be formed is very great. In addition to those illustrated here, see silver-coloured adj., silver-footed adj., silver-haired adj., etc.

(a) Denoting the use of the metal itself.

ΚΠ

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. D^v A hoode, & siluer-handled fan.

1637 J. Milton Comus 16 Faire silver-shafted Queene for ever chast.

1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 53 Fair silver-buskind Nymphs.

1680 London Gaz. No. 1495/4 A Case of Silver-hafted Knives.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 79 A pair of silver mounted pistols.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlviii. 327 The serjeants of the guards have silver-laced regimentals.

1813 W. Scott Let. 6 Nov. (1932) III. 372 I..delight in collecting silver-mounted pistols and ataghans.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiv. 367 Rowena opened the small silver-chased casket.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 237 To provide silver-plated handles of the very best description.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 338 There was the jewel-case, silver-clasped.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 259 [He] bids [his horse]..to dig for him a grave..with his silver-plated hoofs.

1881 O. Wilde Poems 67 Sweeter far if silver-sandalled foot Of some long-hidden God should ever tread The Nuneham meadows.

1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 18 The grandmother looked..over her silver-rimmed spectacles.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins v, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (new ed.) 393 The Judge..laid aside his silver-bowed spectacles.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 204 He would think of the cloistral silverveined prose of Newman.

1916 E. Blunden Harbingers 63 So silver-sandalled down those golden ways He triumphs.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 486 He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer... He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps.

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 258 He was filling a bolster with articles of jewellery, silver-backed brushes, hand mirrors, candlesticks, silver-topped bottles, &c.

1939 D. Cecil Young Melbourne vi. 155 She also created scandal by appearing..imperfectly disguised as a page, in a plumed hat, silver-laced jacket and tight scarlet pantaloons.

1944 W. Fortescue Mountain Madness i. 22 A wide silver-studded black leather belt.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xiii. 170 There's a white leather gift box in every cabin, fitted out with..silver-topped crystal bottles.

(b) With allusion to the sound of silver.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 191 Ioyfull birds..Whose siluer tuned songs might well haue moued her.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 99 My dearest wife was like this maid,..as siluer voyst.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica Poem to Rdr. sig. A2^v I strike my silver-sounded lyre.

1844 E. B. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship xxii Though sometimes she would bind me with her silver-corded speeches.

1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 271/2 The beautiful note of the silver-voiced bell-bird.

(c) With reference to the colour or lustre of silver.

ΚΠ

1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7 Her silver-feathered turtle-doves.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 82 The siluer-fronted Starr That swells and shrinks the Seas.

1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vii. sig. F3^v Euen the siluer-bearded..cittizens haue giuen him welcomes.

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 76 When silver-winged Peace againe shall Shine.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 924 The silver-eddied Peneus.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 48 Like a calm flock of silver-fleeced sheep.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 101 A hoary oak or a silver-barked beech.

1851 J. G. Whittier in National Era 3 Jan. 106/4 Whose small waves on a silver-sanded shore Whisper of peace.

1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 136 A saviour of the silver-coasted isle.

1881 O. Wilde Poems 24 Lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead.

1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 112 And where's the gloom now?—silver-smitten straight, One glow and variegation!

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 2 The inrolling walls of the fog and the silver-winged breeze that disperses.

1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 370/1 Wide silver-breasted rivers flowing to a sunlit sea.

1937 Burlington Mag. May 252/2 Two bowls of Chien yao... One is of the silver-flecked variety.

1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 121 On the silver-sanded shores.

1962 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 22/2 The silver-suited astronaut.

1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 32 All manner of fabulous creatures of the deep surged and surfaced amid the molten silver-flecked arrowing lines of foaming waves.

(d) In specific names of animals, birds, fishes, plants, etc.

silver-cupped adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring

streaked1600

marbled1629

muscadine1646

agated1665

silver-cupped1688

red-top1705

tessellated1723

lineate1777

fancy1793

red-tipped1800

areolated1802

white-lipped1813

variegated1818

pennaceous1819

streak-flowered1822

limbate1826

unbroken1829

sanguine-heart1840

rivulose1843

pencilled1846

areolate1847

notate1857

sigillate1858

discolor1859

discolorous1860

fumose1866

fumous1866

tricolour1866

unnetted1869

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [adjective] > smooth or reflective

shining1674

silver-cupped1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 55/2 The Spanish Silver-cupped Moly.

silver-eyed adj.

ΚΠ

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 252 The silver-eyed Sparus.

1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 431 Silver-eyed Snake... A Siberian species.

1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 366 Silver-eyed crow... Native of South America.

silver-laced adj.

ΚΠ

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 876/1 Another useful race of compact form.., called the silver-laced Wyandotte.

silver-pencilled adj.

ΚΠ

1887 Beldon in Wright Illustr. Bk. Poultry 382 These and all other names are gradually giving way to that of Silver-pencilled Hamburghs.

silver-spangled adj.

ΚΠ

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 59 In the ‘silver-spangled’ variety, the only perceptible difference is, that the ground color is a silvery white.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1890) ii. xiv. 426 The Golden and Silver-spangled Polish..breeds.

silver-spotted adj.

ΚΠ

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 540 Silver-spotted Sciæna... Native of the Arabian seas.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 320 The Silver-spotted Tunny, Orcynus argentivittatus.

silver-striped adj.

ΚΠ

1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 174 Silver-striped Herring... Native of the Indian and American seas.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 78/2 The sycamore maple,..Silver-striped.

silver-studded adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with silver

harnessed1426

silver-headed1760

silver-studded1882

silver1898

1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 45 The Silver-studded Blue (Polymmatus ægon) is common on heaths.

silver-washed adj.

ΚΠ

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. Argynnis Paphia, the silver-washed Fritillary.

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 105 One of our handsomest butterflies—The Silver-washed Fritillary.

c. With present participles, in the sense of ‘like, or with, silver’, as silver-eddying, silver-flashing, silver-flowing, etc.

ΚΠ

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa8^v The siluer sounding instruments.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B1^v The mornings siluer melting dew.

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A3 Rounded with Lycas siluer flowing streams.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 46 The Siluer-shining Sand expresseth Sulpher.

a1699 J. Beaumont Psyche (1702) x. clxxiv. 150 When Eloquence's tributary streams After the Silver-thrilling Current run.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 464 Pallas..In slumber clos'd her silver-streaming eyes.

1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 3 Wanders the hoary Thames along His Silver-winding Way.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights v, in Poems 51 The central fountain's flow Fall'n silverchiming.

1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 77 Whence arise..his silver-swelling strains?

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 46 The steel..Hung silver-glittering on high.

1932 D. Gascoyne Rom. Balcony 33 And through their long-nailed fingers Glide the silver-shining minnows.

1944 W. de la Mare Coll. Rhymes & Verses 99 There silver-shining Hesper Smiles at Mars.

d. Qualifying other adjectives, as silver-blue, silver bright, silver-clear, silver-golden, etc.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 210 How siluer sweet sound louers tongues in night.

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 239 Many a glitt'ring siluer-golden spang.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 315 Their Armours that march'd hence so siluer bright.

1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 5 Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Lilian 24 Silver-treble laughter trilleth.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 144 A little whisper silver-clear.

1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 22 Where some segment silver-true Stays clear.

1914 L. Woolf Wise Virgins iv. 110 The silver-green water glided by him.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 514 Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, rolled in a mummy, rolls roteatingly.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 6 Silver-pink peach, venetian green glass of medlars and sorb-apples.

1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands xii. 242 We came to a succession of dune-chains, each of which..showed up in turn as a wavy silver-blue wall.

1959 R. Graves Coll. Poems 315 And next the silver-bright Hyperborean Queendom.

1973 J. Seabrook Loneliness 117 A quiet, rather subdued woman; smart, with silver-blue hair.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xiii. 165 The pearly capped teeth and silver-pink mouth.

e. With nouns, forming an attributive comb.

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1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses iv. 38 Then by Alcandre t'Helena Divine A silver brim guilt Basket given was.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1238/4 A bright silver-hair bay Gelding.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-spoon-head, in Archery, is the Head of some sort of Arrows, so called from the resemblance they have to the knobs of some sorts of Silver-spoons.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 385 2000 couple of silver hair [rabbits].

1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 108 Silver-stripe Pike, Esox Hepsetus.

C2.

a. Special combinations.

silver-balli n. (see quot.).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America

guaiacum1533

guaiac1558

lignum vitae1594

sweetwood1607

green ebony1665

princewoodc1665

alligator wood1696

pimento wood1712

greenheart1719

mahoea1726

galimeta-wood1756

determa1769

bullet-wood1843

cocobolo1849

lancewood1858

silver-balli1858

yari-yari1858

Honduras rosewood1860

sabicu1866

amarant1909

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-balli, a wood obtained in Demerara from a species of Nectandra.

silver band n. a brass band with silver-coloured instruments.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1933 Radio Times 14 Apr. 126/5 The Tullis Russell Silver Band.

1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xxv. 228 ‘Thump! Thump! Thump!’ said the drum of the Bures Silver Band.

1976 Times 3 May 12/4 The Eastbourne silver band, in bright red jackets, played California Here I Come.

silver bar n. (see quot.).

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of

barrel1591

motion1605

bezel1616

fusee1622

string1638

crown wheel1646

out-case1651

watch-box1656

nuck1664

watchwork1667

balance-wheel1669

box1675

dial wheel1675

counter-potence1678

pendulum-balance1680

watch-case1681

pillar1684

contrate teeth1696

pinion of report1696

watch-hook1698

bob-balance1701

half-cock1701

potence1704

verge1704

pad1705

movable1709

jewel1711

pendant1721

crystal1722

watch-key1723

pendulum spring1728

lock spring1741

watch-glass1742

watch-spring1761

all-or-nothing piece1764

watch hand1764

cylinder1765

cannon?1780

cannon1802

stackfreed1819

pillar plate1821

little hand1829

hair-spring1830

lunette1832

all-or-nothing1843

locking1851

slag1857

staff1860

case spring1866

stem1866

balance-cock1874

watch-dial1875

balance-spring1881

balance-staff1881

Breguet spring1881

overcoil1881

surprise-piece1881

brass edge1884

button turn1884

fourth wheel1884

fusee-sink1884

pair-case1884

silver bar1884

silver piece1884

slang1884

top plate1884

karrusel1893

watch-face1893

watch bracelet1896

bar-movement1903

jewel pivot1907

jewel bearing1954

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 241 Silver Bar, [or] Silver Piece, the graduated arc at the extremity of a watch regulator when it is made of silver.

silver bath n. a solution, esp. of silver nitrate, used for sensitizing photographic plates and printing paper; a dish to contain this.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer

emulsion1840

collodion1851

sensitizer1854

nitrate bath1858

collodio-bromide1864

organifier1873

silver bath1878

bromide emulsion1885

silver1891

sensibilizer1900

panchromatic1906

nuclear emulsion1949

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 61 The following formula for the silver~bath solution is a standard one.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 38 The silver bath..standing in the sun,..that it may do its dark work the better.

silver-beggar n. (see quots.).

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1841 Exposure of Impositions practised by Vagrants 4 I shall begin with those vagrants who, generally, obtain the most, and are considered of the first class, and by some termed ‘Silver Beggars’, but by travellers they are called ‘Lurkers’.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 230 Silver-beggar or Lurker, a vagabond who travels through the country with ‘briefs’ containing false statements of losses by fire, shipwrecks, accidents, &c.

silver-black adj. (see quots.).

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > argentite group > silver sulphide

silver-black1805

argentite1837

argyrite1868

argyrose1868

1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 152 Silver-black... Colour bluish-black, which inclines a little to dark lead-grey.

1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 457/2 Silver Black, an earthy form of Silver Glance..found in several Saxon and Hungarian mines.

silver blond adj. (also silver blonde) of hair: of a very light, silvery colour, esp. as the result of bleaching (cf. platinum blonde n. and adj.).

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > coloured

hennaed1853

blondine1867

blondined1890

peroxided1904

blue-rinsed1936

silver blond1951

blue rinse1959

1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle i. 29 Silver-blond hair, silver-grey eyes.

1959 M. Summerton Small Wilderness i. 8 The silver-blonde hair that curved..to her shoulders.

1974 D. Francis Knock Down iii. 37 She had silver shoes and silver-blonde hair.

† silver bridal n. Obsolete = silver-marriage n.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > at which guests contribute money

penny-bridal1599

silver bridal1624

penny wedding1672

silver-marriage1825

penny wedder1866

silvern wedding1880

1624 Rec. Presbytery of Fordyce (MS.) Abuses at Sylver brydells.

silver bronze n. (see quots.).

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society > communication > printing > miscellaneous printers' equipment > [noun] > powder for silver printing

silver bronze1888

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 125 Silver bronze, a metallic powder used for silver printing.

c1930 Catal. Delta Metal Co. Ltd. (ed. 11) 20 ‘Delta’ Bronze No. 11 (Silver Bronze) is a high-class alloy of a silver-white colour; it is malleable and takes a beautiful polish, and is specially suitable..for all purposes where a strong non-rusting material of a silver colour is required.

† silver caustic n. Obsolete lunar caustic.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [noun] > mineral-derived

mercury sublimate1562

infernal stone1706

silver caustic1753

common or lunar caustic1800

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Silver This powder applied to ulcers, acts in the manner of the lapis infernalis, or silver-caustic.

silver collection n. a collection of ‘silver’ coins (or of money of no denomination lower than these) made at a meeting, etc.

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1957 B. Hulme Beaman & S. G. Hulme Beaman Ernest the Brave 8 ‘I was referring to the pence expected as a result of this disgraceful exhibition!’ ‘Oh, Mr. Growser, sir,’ Larry interrupted. ‘This is supposed to be a silver collection.’

1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xxii. 145 Imagine, Katz, no charge. Not even a silver collection.

silver cord n. (a) used in the silver cord is loosed and variants (in allusion to Ecclesiastes xii. 6) to signify the dissolution of life at death; (b) a symbol of excessive devotion between mother and child.

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]

forsweltc888

sweltc888

adeadeOE

deadc950

wendeOE

i-wite971

starveOE

witea1000

forfereOE

forthfareOE

forworthc1000

to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE

queleOE

fallOE

to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE

to shed (one's own) blood?a1100

diec1135

endc1175

farec1175

to give up the ghostc1175

letc1200

aswelta1250

leavea1250

to-sweltc1275

to-worthc1275

to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290

finea1300

spilla1300

part?1316

to leese one's life-daysa1325

to nim the way of deathc1325

to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330

flit1340

trance1340

determinec1374

disperisha1382

to go the way of all the eartha1382

to be gathered to one's fathers1382

miscarryc1387

shut1390

goa1393

to die upa1400

expirea1400

fleea1400

to pass awaya1400

to seek out of lifea1400–50

to sye hethena1400

tinea1400

trespass14..

espirec1430

to end one's days?a1439

decease1439

to go away?a1450

ungoc1450

unlivec1450

to change one's lifea1470

vade1495

depart1501

to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513

to decease this world1515

to go over?1520

jet1530

vade1530

to go westa1532

to pick over the perch1532

galpa1535

to die the death1535

to depart to God1548

to go home1561

mort1568

inlaikc1575

shuffle1576

finish1578

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

relent1587

unbreathe1589

transpass1592

to lose one's breath1596

to make a die (of it)1611

to go offa1616

fail1623

to go out1635

to peak over the percha1641

exita1652

drop1654

to knock offa1657

to kick upa1658

to pay nature her due1657

ghost1666

to march off1693

to die off1697

pike1697

to drop off1699

tip (over) the perch1699

to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703

sink1718

vent1718

to launch into eternity1719

to join the majority1721

demise1727

to pack off1735

to slip one's cable1751

turf1763

to move off1764

to pop off the hooks1764

to hop off1797

to pass on1805

to go to glory1814

sough1816

to hand in one's accounts1817

to slip one's breatha1819

croak1819

to slip one's wind1819

stiffen1820

weed1824

buy1825

to drop short1826

to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839

to get one's (also the) call1839

to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840

to unreeve one's lifeline1840

to step out1844

to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845

to hand in one's checks1845

to go off the handle1848

to go under1848

succumb1849

to turn one's toes up1851

to peg out1852

walk1858

snuff1864

to go or be up the flume1865

to pass outc1867

to cash in one's chips1870

to go (also pass over) to the majority1883

to cash in1884

to cop it1884

snuff1885

to belly up1886

perch1886

to kick the bucket1889

off1890

to knock over1892

to pass over1897

to stop one1901

to pass in1904

to hand in one's marble1911

the silver cord is loosed1911

pip1913

to cross over1915

conk1917

to check out1921

to kick off1921

to pack up1925

to step off1926

to take the ferry1928

peg1931

to meet one's Maker1933

to kiss off1935

to crease it1959

zonk1968

cark1977

to cark it1979

to take a dirt nap1981

the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > symbol of excessive mother-child devotion

silver cord1911

the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective] > excessive mother-child devotion

silver cord1911

1911 J. A. Thomson Introd. Sci. vi. 177 If we can use such a word, the silver cord of the bundle of life is loosed, and earth returns to earth. The microbes of decay break down the dead, and there is a return to air and water and salts.

1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night i. xiii. 76 ‘The silver cord is cut and the golden bowl is broken and all that, but an old romantic like me can't do anything about it.’ ‘I'm romantic too.’ They came out of the neat restored trench, and faced a memorial to the Newfoundland dead.

1942 P. Wylie Generation of Vipers xi. 185 Our land, subjectively mapped, would have more silver cords and apron strings crisscrossing it than railroads and telephone wires.

1959 J. Braine Vodi xxi. 232 Her mother, as usual, had won. And, what was hardest to forgive, had won fairly; she wasn't the Silver Cord type, she'd never been possessive.

1973 G. M. Brown Magnus vii. 156 Magnus Erlendson would live out his life, until such time as the silver cord was loosed, and the golden bowl broken, and the pitcher broken at the fountain.

silver doctor n. an artificial fishing fly having a body of tinsel.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of

moor flylOE

drake-flya1450

dub-flya1450

dun cut1496

dun fly1496

louper1496

red fly1616

moorish fly1635

palmer1653

palmer fly1653

red hackle1653

red palmer1653

shell-fly1653

orange fly1662

blackfly1669

dun1676

dun hackle1676

hackle1676

mayfly1676

peacock fly1676

thorn-tree fly1676

turkey-fly1676

violet-fly1676

whirling dun1676

badger fly1681

greenfly1686

moorish brown1689

prime dun1696

sandfly1700

grey midge1724

whirling blue1747

dun drake?1758

death drake1766

hackle fly1786

badger1787

blue1787

brown-fly1787

camel-brown1787

spinner1787

midge1799

night-fly1799

thorn-fly1799

turkey1799

withy-fly1799

grayling fly1811

sun fly1820

cock-a-bondy1835

brown moth1837

bunting-lark fly1837

governor1837

water-hen hackle1837

Waterloo fly1837

coachman1839

soldier palmer1839

blue jay1843

red tag1850

canary1855

white-tip1856

spider1857

bumble1859

doctor1860

ibis1863

Jock Scott1866

eagle1867

highlander1867

jay1867

John Scott1867

judge1867

parson1867

priest1867

snow-fly1867

Jack Scott1874

Alexandra1875

silver doctor1875

Alexandra fly1882

grackle1894

grizzly queen1894

heckle-fly1897

Zulu1898

thunder and lightning1910

streamer1919

Devon1924

peacock1950

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 40/2 The silver doctor, also a very great favourite. Tag, silver tinsel; tail, a topping; but, a turn of red crewel; body of silver tinsel entirely; [etc.].

1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 1435 Salmon Flies... Silver Doctor.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 447/1 In tidal pools there are few better flies than a silver-doctor tied exceedingly small.

1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31 Your fairy shrimp, just as pretty..as any Jock Scott or Silver Doctor.

† silver-eyed adj. Obsolete wall-eyed.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of eye

wall-eyeda1400

wolden-eiȝeda1400

ringle-eyed1586

feather-eyeda1640

silver-eyed1695

cyclopian1839

aphakic1889

heterochromic1911

1695 London Gaz. No. 3086/4 A dark Iron grey Mare,..Silver Eyed.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3857/4 A small black Gelding about 13 hands... Wall or Silver-Ey'd.

silver-fawn adj. and n. (a) adj. a fanciers' term denoting fur of a fawn colour tipped with silver; (b) n. an animal having such fur.

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1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity Similarly the chocolate colour when diluted gives what fanciers call ‘silver-fawn’.

1914 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 173 Five matings between silver-fawns gave 28 silver-fawn young.

silver-feast n. = silver wedding n.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > anniversary > specific

silver-feast1796

silver wedding1849

golden wedding1850

wooden wedding1870

diamond wedding1872

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 216 The celebration of what he called his Silver-feast, being the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage.

1806 A. L. Barbauld Let. 7 Jan. in Wks. (1825) II. 125 We should have had great pleasure in keeping with you your silver feast, as the Germans call it when a couple have lived happily a quarter of a century together.

silver-fizz n. an effervescing drink based on gin and egg white (cf. fizz n. 3).

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > gin cocktail

gin sling1790

thunder and lightning1802

Tom Collins1876

Martini1884

silver-fizz1901

pahit1902

pink gin1903

Clover Club1925

gimlet1928

gin and it1929

pink lady1929

Alexander1930

Gibson1930

silver bullet1930

Singapore sling1930

White Lady1930

pink1942

negroni1947

pinkers1961

dirty martini1991

1901 O. Wister Philos. 4 in Stories of Colleges 68 It must have been that extra silver-fizz you took before dinner.

1977 E. Ambler Send no More Roses vi. 121 He was drinking a silver-fizz, a long drink made of gin and egg-whites.

† silver-foam n. Obsolete litharge.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > general formula AO > litharge

litharge1322

litharge of goldc1400

litharge of silverc1400

spumec1400

foam of lead1538

silver-foam1565

plumbago1617

silver-glet1668

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > litharge

litharge1322

litharge of goldc1400

litharge of silverc1400

spumec1400

spume of argenta1533

foam of lead1538

silver-foam1565

plumbago1617

silver-glet1668

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Argyritis, siluer fome.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Litharge d'argent, siluer foame.

silver-fork n. used attributively to designate a school of novelists about 1830 distinguished by an affectation of gentility; also applied to later novelists displaying similar characteristics.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement

young-ladyfied1616

genteel1631

genteea1680

fal-lal1747

shabby-genteel1754

fine-ladylike1755

fine-ladyish1777

ladyish1830

silver-fork1831

haw-haw1841

lardy-dardy1861

la-di-dac1883

refained1925

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > specific novelists

silver-fork1831

1827 Examiner 18 Nov. 722/2 A writer of this accomplished stamp..also informs you that the quality eat fish with silver forks.]

1831 Times 15 Dec. 5/3 A single chapter of any one of them is worth more than the whole bundle of those contemptible productions of the silver-fork school, which are called ‘fashionable novels’.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 59/1 A man who would die a martyr to his faith in the silver-fork school of manners and morals.

1884 J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. 154 It had the culture of the silver-fork school without their affectation.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Oct. 1092/5 The suspicion grows that this is a new-style ‘silver fork’ novel, with merchant bankers taking the place of noble dukes.

silver glass n. (see quots.).

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > silver ore > types of

glass-ore1683

goose-silver-ore1776

silver glass1797

silver-glance1805

goose-dung-ore1858

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > cut or relief-decorated glass

silver glass1797

cut glass1800

mousseline1862

cameo glass1879

prunt1902

verre églomisé1907

reticello1926

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 62/2 Some of the rich silver ores are easily tried: for instance, minera argenti vitrea,..silver-glass, which consists only of silver and sulphur.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 813/1 Silver Glass, an ornamental ground and cut glass. This glass can be used in the place of plaster, marble floors, or wood inlaid work.

† silver-glet n. Obsolete litharge.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > general formula AO > litharge

litharge1322

litharge of goldc1400

litharge of silverc1400

spumec1400

foam of lead1538

silver-foam1565

plumbago1617

silver-glet1668

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > litharge

litharge1322

litharge of goldc1400

litharge of silverc1400

spumec1400

spume of argenta1533

foam of lead1538

silver-foam1565

plumbago1617

silver-glet1668

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 306 Lithargyros, Litharge, or Silver~glet.

silver handshake n. a gratuity given on retirement or as compensation for dismissal from one's occupation (of less value than a golden handshake).

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for termination of employment

pay-off1935

severance pay1953

silver handshake1958

golden handshake1959

lumpers1960

severance1965

1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 84 Flash Willy is just about to go back to London, pick up his silver handshake, his sacking money, and get himself a corner in the ‘I will photograph your child in your home’ lark.

1979 C. Dexter Service of All Dead ii. 17 A little silver handshake, a little farewell party.

† silver hell n. slang Obsolete a low-class gambling saloon (cf. hell n. 8) (obsolete).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling

dicing-house1549

carding house1550

gaming house1562

dicing-chamber1571

tabling house1576

game house?1577

macaroni1771

gambling house1772

gambling school1773

gambling club1774

spill-house1778

gambling hall?1781

gambling den1792

gambling booth1804

hell1812

gambling hell1818

Crockford1827

silver hell1835

deadfall1837

casino1851

house1855

tripot1864

skin house1871

bucket-shop1875

gambling joint1885

salle1886

tabling den1886

spoofery1895

salle de jeu1901

strong joint1914

kitchen1924

salle privée1930

spieler1931

1835 T. Power Jrnl. 13 Jan. in Impressions of Amer. (1836) II. 196 With here and there a couple of the same sort of gemman to be met with about the silver hells of London.

1843 W. T. Moncrieff Scamps of London i. i. 5 in Sel. Dram. Wks. (1851) I He's the principal partner in all the silver hells at the west end.

† silver-hider n. Obsolete a miser.

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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth

chinch?a1300

wretch1303

chincher1333

muckererc1390

mokerarda1400

muglard1440

gatherer?a1513

hoarder?a1513

warner1513

hardhead1519

snudge1545

cob1548

snidge1548

muckmonger1566

mucker1567

miser?1577

scrape-penny1584

money-miser1586

gromwell-gainer1588

muckscrape1589

muckworm1598

scrib1600

muckraker1601

morkin-gnoff1602

scrape-scall1602

incubo1607

accumulator1611

gripe-money1611

scrape-good1611

silver-hider1611

gripe1621

scrapeling1629

clutch1630

scrape-pelfa1640

volpone1672

spare-penny1707

save-all1729

bagger1740

spare-thrift1803

money-codger1818

hunger-rot1828

muckrake1850

muckthrift1852

gripe-penny1860

hugger-mugger1862

Scrooge1940

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Serargent,..a scrape-good, penny-father, siluer-hider, money-hoorder.

silver jubilee n. see jubilee n. 3a.

Silver Lady n. an epithet applied to Miss Elizabeth Baxter (d. 1972), philanthropist, from her custom of giving silver coins to the down-and-outs of the Embankment in London, used attributively to describe a charitable organization (and its appurtenances) which distributes food and hot drinks to vagrants.

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Silver Lady1961

1961 Ann. Charities Reg. & Digest 208/2 Silver Lady Fund. Mobile café out on Embankment serving hot tea and food free to the needy. Miss Betty Baxter.., E.C.4.

1978 C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road xv. 171 The Silver Lady van arrived and mugs of tea and meat pies were distributed.

silver-lip n. (see quot.)

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1901 Knowledge Sept. 209/1 The large Austro-Malayan oyster, the valuable ‘silver-lip’ and ‘gold-lip’ of commerce.

silver lustre n. a composition used for silvering potter's ware.

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steel lustre1829

moonlight lustre1837

stone-oil1838

silver lustre1845

porcelain enamel1852

marzacotto1873

overglaze1880

under-glaze1882

coperta1885

tiger's-eye1893

tin-glaze1897

hare's fur1899

lead-glaze1899

tin-enamel1900

rouge flambé1902

Sunderland lustre1903

transmutation glaze1904

Mohammedan blue1905

peach bloom1937

sang-de-bœuf1957

lead-lustre-

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 468/2 The silver lustre is differently prepared.

† silver-marriage n. (in Sc. form siller marriage) Obsolete a marriage at which each guest contributed a money-offering.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > at which guests contribute money

penny-bridal1599

silver bridal1624

penny wedding1672

silver-marriage1825

penny wedder1866

silvern wedding1880

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Siller Siller-Marriage, the same with Penny-Brydal.

a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 181 Siller marriages fifty years syne war in vogue.

silver medal n. a medal made of or resembling silver, awarded as the second prize in a contest, esp. in the Olympic Games.

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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes

garland?a1513

plate1639

cupc1640

dog plate1686

gold medal1694

gold cup1718

sweepstake1773

trophy1822

bronze medal1852

shield1868

statuette1875

pot1885

team honours1895

letter1897

silver medal1908

school colour1913

gold1945

bronze1960

silver1960

Fed Cup1965

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > decoration > medal > specific

gold medal1694

Albert medal1850

bronze medal1852

silver medal1908

B.E.M.1941

gold1945

1908 T. A. Cook Olympic Games i. 16 For all these gold, silver, and bronze prize medals have been allotted.

1958 Times 25 Aug. 4/1 The British sprint relay teams won their silver medals through immaculate baton changing.

1976 All about Games (Com. Org. des Jeux Olympiques) 24 Canada's 74 athletes won one silver medal.

silver medallist n.

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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc.

runner-up1859

silver medallist1910

placer1942

vice-champion1981

1910 N.E.D. at Silver Silver medallist.

1976 Daily Tel. 20 July 1/7 The cheating by Boris Onischenko, silver medallist at the Mexico City and Munich Olympics.

silver oar n. (see quot. 1867).

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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > insignia of civil court afloat

silver oar1772

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 i. 66 Captain Ferguson..was carried from Newgate, the Marshal of the Admiralty, the officer carrying the silver oar, &c., attending.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 626 Silver-oar, one of the badges of the civil court afloat, conferring the power to arrest for debt if not less than £20.

Silver Office n. an office formerly attached to the Court of Common Pleas.

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Silver Office1708

1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 573 Clerk of the Queen's Silver-Office.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 312/1 The king's Silver Office books are the chief indexes to the fines.

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silver piece n. (see the quotation for silver bar).

† silver-pill n. Obsolete (see quot.).

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mercury1617

blue pill1670

calomel1676

mercurial1676

silver-pill1753

blue mass1823

panacea of mercury1823

grey powder1842

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > pill > specific type of pill

aggregative1588

Matthew's pill1663

blue pill1670

silver-pill1753

multi1984

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Silver-pill, a chemical preparation of silver, formerly highly commended.

silver-point n. (a) the process of making a drawing with a silver pencil on specially prepared paper; a drawing made in this way; (b) the freezing point of silver under normal atmospheric pressure (about 962°C), as a thermometric fixed point.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs

freezing-point1748

boiling-point1773

absolute zero1798

firing point1807

melting temperature1827

ice point1832

dew-point1833

melting point1838

neutral temperature1854

fusing point or temperature1860

welding point1868

flashing-point1878

flashpoint1878

mp1880

ignition temperature1881

silver-point1882

fire point1884

ignition point1887

neutral point1892

smoking point1915

smoking temperature1915

pour point1922

smoke point1933

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > in specific medium

stylography1840

silver-point1882

pastelling1899

1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts xii. 97 Silver-point, as practised by the best masters.

1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 219 Marvellously artistic etchings and ‘silver-points’.

1928 Bureau of Standards Jrnl. Res. (U.S.) 1 637 The constants a, b, and c are to be determined by calibration at the freezing point of antimony, and at the silver and gold points.

1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) v. iii. 41/1 In the neighbourhood of 1000°C new determinants of the silver point and gold point have been made in recent years.

silver-point v. [as a back-formation] (transitive) to cause to appear coloured or tinged in the manner of a silver-point drawing.

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silver-point1976

1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 46 A bright half moon was..silverpointing the slates and making pendant shadows beneath the..eaves.

silver-pointed adj. coloured or tinged in the manner of a silver-point drawing.

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ambery?1771

foxy1783

silver-pointed1913

1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. xx. 483 They moved to Geneva, whose silverpointed beauty for a while deceived them.

1930 R. Campbell Poems 1 Two sisters... Whose fingers glint with silver~pointed nails.

silver polish n. a polish used for cleaning and brightening silver.

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pumice1422

emery1481

foam of copperas1538

pumex1589

emery-stone1610

smiris1610

putty1663

rottenstone1677

tutty1731

French rouge?1745

rotstone1767

plate powder1786

emery-powder18..

rouge1808

waxing1825

black lead1830

tin-putty1839

red stuff1844

stove-polish1858

crocusa1861

crocus-powder1873

furniture cream1873

grit-emery1884

silver polish1895

Ronuk1896

Brasso1905

floor polish1907

lavender cream1926

lavender polish1961

lavender wax1970

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 193 Thorn's Silver Polish, Liquid Form, 15c. per Bottle.

1925 Morris Owner's Man. 34 The Radiator Casing..should be polished frequently, using a good brand of metal or silver polish.

1974 ‘D. Fletcher’ Lovable Man i. 37 He memorised the exact position of the silver polish and..began to polish the lighter.

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silver-powder n. a preparation of bismuth, tin, and mercury, used by japanners, etc. (Knight, 1875).

silver print n. a photograph produced by silver-printing.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process

tithonograph1842

platinotype1844

daguerreotype1849

crystallotype1852

catalysotype1853

black print1855

sun print1855

blueprint1857

ferrotype1857

tin-type1864

pyro-photograph1869

opalotype1873

gelatine picture1875

hellenotype1875

panotype1875

silver print1878

autophotograph1880

platinum print1881

bromide print1885

solar1889

solar print1889

shadowgraph1896

skiagraph1896

rotograph1899

autochrome1902

rayogram1932

reduction print1933

photogram1934

blow-up1945

Polaroid1953

opaque1959

bromide1967

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 138 The colour of the silver print when appearing through this other metal may give a pleasing tint.

1901 Athenæum 12 Oct. 497/1 The views here given..cannot compare in sharpness with the unfortunately perishable silver prints.

silver-printing n. (a) the process of producing a photograph on paper sensitized with a silver salt; (b) printing in which the letters, etc., have a silver colour.

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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > silver-printing

silver-printing1878

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of

sun painting1839

sun-printing1853

surface process1865

contact printing1876

silver-printing1878

pigment printing1879

bromide printing1885

printing out1889

screen process1890

gaslight printing1899

projection printing1923

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 28 In determining the fixing agent to employ in silver printing, this point has to be taken into consideration.

1888Silver printing [see silver bronze n.].

† silver quinsy n. Obsolete = silver sickness n.

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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe

silverya1387

silver sickness1548

silver squinsy1611

silver quinsy1706

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Argentangia The Silver-Quinsey.

1843 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. Ἀργυράγχη, the silver-quinsy, which Demosthenes was said to have [etc.].

silver rain n. (see rain n.¹ 5).

silver ring n. Horse Racing (see quot. 1921) (cf. Tattersall n. 1b); also attributive.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > betting place

wager-hall1691

wagering-post1696

wager-office1723

betting-post1771

ring1775

betting room1793

betting ring1822

Tattersall1836

betting office1852

betting shop1852

betting-house1853

pool room1861

list shop1875

list house1902

tote-shop1906

silver ring1921

bookmaker1923

bookie1936

1921 E. Wallace Law Four Just Men ix. 261 I found a poor little bookmaker in the silver ring—the silver ring is the enclosure where smaller bets are made in Tattersall's reservation.

1926 J. Masefield Odtaa xv. 257 A vile, taunting, silver-ring tick.

1928 J. H. Thomas in Hansard's Parl. Deb. 220 500 If there are these advantages, it would give them to the silver ring, to Tattersall's, and to others.

1928 J. H. Thomas in Hansard's Parl. Deb. 220 501 When the totalisator is in operation, you will have the totalisator for the silver ring and for Tattersall's.

1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xx. 306 She is the daughter of a retired Silver Ring bookie.

1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xvii. 227 Sandro was in Tatt's... He could also go down the social and financial scale into the Silver Ring and the cheapest enclosures.

silver sand n. a fine white sand used in horticulture, etc.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > artificial soil or compost > fine white sand

silver sand1851

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers

marl1280

pomacec1450

cod's head1545

buck-ashes1563

bucking-ashes1577

guano1604

greaves1614

rape cake1634

muck1660

wool-nipping1669

willow-earth1683

green dressing1732

bone flour1758

bone powder1758

poudrette1764

bone dust1771

green manure1785

fish-manure1788

wassal1797

lime-rubbish1805

Bude sand1808

bone1813

cancerine1840

inch-bones1846

bonemeal1849

silver sand1851

fish guano1857

food1857

terramare1866

kainite1868

fish-flour1879

soil1879

fish-scrap1881

gas lime1882

bean cake1887

inoculant1916

1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Aug. 135 I put them [sc. seeds] into a wood or paper box,..with a little dry silver sand.

1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 164 How are you off for silver-sand, pasture-loam?

silver screen n. a cinematographic projection screen covered with metallic paint to produce a highly reflective silver-coloured surface; usually transferred, the cinema generically, considered as a medium for such film projection.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema

cinematograph1896

animation1897

cinema1908

movies1909

movie screen1912

pic1913

big screen1914

film1915

motion pictures1915

picture1915

screen1915

seventh art1921

celluloid1922

silver screen1924

flick1926

flickers1927

pix1932

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen

scrim1891

cinema screen1912

movie screen1912

widescreen1920

silver screen1924

bead screen1934

screen1952

split screen1953

pinscreen1959

1921 ‘M. Pickford’ Let. in V. Burnett Romantick Lady (1927) xxxii. 398 It is not always easy to take a classic like ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ and place it on the cold, silver screen.]

1924 Amer. Hebrew 22 Feb. 439 (heading) ‘Shooting’ news for the silver screen; Pathe film editor who brings home to millions timely pictures of world events.

1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures i. 19 Somehow there had crept into this new field of endeavour the romance of the silver screen.

1931 in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures 2 The intent of the magic was merely to bring the two lovers, sound and silver screen, together.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 636/4 Not a night passes without one aspect or another of the far western frontier holding children from play and old men from the chimney corner on the silver screen or on ‘the Telly’.

1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xii. 256 Cameron Clarke objected to Tunipah and the god of the silver screen had spoken.

silver service n. (see quot. 1970).

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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > types of service

table service1620

room service1916

waitressing1936

waitress service1960

silver service1970

1970 Drive Spring 43/1 Silver service means that your plate is put before you empty and the various parts of your dish are served separately from silver.

1976 Evening Standard 14 June 25/3 (advt.) Commis de rang for our high class Prince's Room Restaurant—must have silver service experience.

Silver Shirts n. U.S. the name applied to the Silver Legion, an American fascist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1940 (cf. Blackshirt n.).

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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > paramilitary groups spec. > [noun]

U.V.F.1913

squadra1922

Sturmabteilung1923

steel helmet1925

Schutzbund1927

new guard1932

Silver Shirts1934

Stern gang1944

Umkhonto we Sizwe1961

nahal1963

MK1964

Provisional I.R.A.1970

Black September1971

Red Brigade1971

Black Septembrist1972

U.D.A.1972

Symbionese Liberation Army1973

U.F.F.1973

Amal1976

death squad1976

INLA1979

society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies

moral majority1815

patron1870

Tammany tiger1871

grange1875

Silver Shirts1934

Bund1939

SDS1961

Weather Underground1972

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Aug. 6/2 A California newspaper has published the exciting news that the Silver Shirts of America plan to put down the Communists and then take over control of the American Government.

1959 W. Faulkner Mansion 303 When the Silver Shirts appeared, Clarence was one of the first in Mississippi to join it.

† silver-sick adj. Obsolete avaricious.

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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions

greedya1000

overgreedyOE

avarous1303

covetous1340

concupiscible1398

avaricious1474

silver-sick?a1500

lucrous1511

having1528

lucrative1549

concupiscentious1555

holding1569

griping?1573

concupiscential1577

over-havinga1600

gripulous1614

ingordigious1637

concupitive1651

appropriative1655

lucripetous1675

coveting1699

grasping1747

concupiscenta1834

acquisitive1846

pleonectic1858

big-eye1868

wanting1876

possessive1889

grabby1910

gold-digging1925

territorial1966

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2036 in Poems (1981) 78 Ȝe ar siluer-seik, I wait richt weill.

† silver sickness n. Obsolete (see quot. 1706 and cf. silver quinsy n.).

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silverya1387

silver sickness1548

silver squinsy1611

silver quinsy1706

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Argentagina, the syluer sycknesse.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-sickness, or Silver-squincy, is when an Advocate or pleading Lawyer, being brib'd by the other Party, feigns himself sick, or not able to speak.

silver-side n. the upper and choicer part of a round of beef.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts

tild1342

ox foota1398

oxtaila1425

neat's foot?c1450

beef-flick1462

sticking piece1469

ox-tonguea1475

aitch-bone1486

fore-crop?1523

sirloin1525

mouse-piece1530

ox-cheek1592

neat's tongue1600

clod1601

sticking place1601

skink1631

neck beef1640

round1660

ox-heart1677

runner1688

sticking draught1688

brisket-beef1697

griskin1699

sey1719

chuck1723

shin1736

gravy beef1747

baron of beef1755

prime rib1759

rump and dozen1778

mouse buttock1818

slifta1825

nine holes1825

spauld-piece1828

trembling-piece1833

shoulder-lyar1844

butt1845

plate1854

plate-rand1854

undercut1859

silver-side1861

bed1864

wing rib1883

roll1884

strip-loin1884

hind1892

topside1896

rib-eye1926

buttock meat1966

onglet1982

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery viii. 206 The natural division of the meat will show where the silver-side of the round is to be separated from the upper, or tongue side.]

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xiii. 283 As a whole round of beef..is too large for small families..we here give the recipe for dressing a portion of the silver side of the round.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan i. vi Such a beautiful bit of beef too, silverside.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) iii I can milk a cow, and pot a vine, and bed down a pony, and salt a silver-side.

silver-skin n. (a) a variety of potato; (b) an inner skin on coffee-beans.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > coffee bean or plant > [noun] > coffee bean > husk or skin

parchment1682

silver-skin1797

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato

potato1629

Rough Red1771

sprout1771

London lady1780

russet1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

silver-skin1797

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

lumper1840

blue1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

mangel-wurzel potato1875

snowflake1882

snowdrop1900

pomato1905

Idaho1911

Majestic1917

red1926

Pentland1959

1797 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset (new ed.) 116 The sorts [of potato] cultivated are the kidney,..and silver skin.

1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 528/1 The beans [of coffee are] put through a winnower, which takes off a delicate skin still remaining, called the ‘silver-skin’.

silver solder n. a solder partly composed of silver.

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gold solder1580

soft solder1594

spelter solder1671

silver solder1682

spelter1815

silver-soldering1843

pewter solder1850

Wood1860

strap solder1885

tinman's solder1937

1682 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech.: 2nd Pt. 18 And therefore silver-solder could not be used in cementing the parts, but onely lead-solder.

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 434 The hard solders most commonly used are the spelter solders, and silver solders.

silver-solder v. see silver solder n.

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braze1678

plumba1722

soft-solder1769

spelter1861

tin1873

silver-solder1889

to blow on1893

1889 P. N. Hasluck Model Engineer's Handybk. 87 The flanges can be made separately, and either brazed or silver-soldered on ends of tube.

silver-soldering n. see silver solder n.

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gold solder1580

soft solder1594

spelter solder1671

silver solder1682

spelter1815

silver-soldering1843

pewter solder1850

Wood1860

strap solder1885

tinman's solder1937

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 443 The practice of silver-soldering is essentially the same as brazing.

† silver-spat n. Obsolete a silver-bearing rock.

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alum rockc1637

silver-spat1668

salt-rock1670

tin-spar1681

garnet-rock1794

mimophyre1824

crystalline1856

haüynophyr1865

minette1866

phosphate rock1869

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 301 Saxa Metallaria, Silver-Spat.

silver-spoonism n. (see quot.).

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement

airs and graces1697

fine-ladyism1799

gentility1821

shabby-gentility1829

gentishness1847

genteelism1849

silver-spoonism1859

posh1915

refainment1933

1859 Habits Good Society 50 Silver-spoonism is, after all, vulgarity; it is an assumption of delicacy superior to the majority.

† silver squinsy n. Obsolete = silver sickness n.

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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe

silverya1387

silver sickness1548

silver squinsy1611

silver quinsy1706

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Argentangine, the siluer Squinzie, a disease wherwith many besides Demosthenes..haue beene troubled.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1278 The silver-squincy, when a pleader being bribed by the other side, feigns himself sick, and not able to speak.

Silver Star n. a decoration for gallantry awarded to members of the U.S. Army and Navy (see quot. 1941); also Silver Star medal.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders

Order of St Michael1530

Legion of Honour1802

clasp1813

Iron Cross1813

medal1813

star1844

Victoria Cross1856

V.C.1859

Medal of Honour1861

bar1864

yellow jacket1864

V.D.1901

Croix de Guerre1915

Military Cross1915

C.G.M.1916

Military Medal1916

pip1917

M.M.1918

purple heart1918

Maconochie Cross1919

Maconochie Medal1919

wound-stripe1919

T.D.1924

rooty gong1925

Silver Star1932

Ritterkreuz1940

Africa Star1943

ruptured duck1945

Spam medal1945

screaming eagle1946

1932 U.S. Army Regulations 8 Aug. No. 600 –45 p. 1 The authorized decorations awarded by the United States are: a. Awarded by the War Department... (4) Silver Star.

1932 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. ii. 2/5 Captain Herbert G. Rosboro..received the Silver Star medal today from the War Department for gallantry in action in October, 1918.

1941 J. McDowell Morgan Military Medals & Insignia of U.S. 76 The Silver Star was established..on July 9, 1918. This originally was a unique badge of honor, being a small silver star, 3/16-inch in diameter, designed to be worn on the ribbon of a campaign medal to indicate..‘a citation for gallantry in action’... On August 8, 1932, a distinct medal, known as the Silver Star Decoration, was established as a reward to those persons previously cited in orders for gallantry in action.

1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 Aug. (1969) 185 The hyperscientific climax of this hero (a prominent killer, holder of Silver Stars & Clusters & Purple Hearts galore)'s experience.

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam vii. 153 You've been awarded the Silver Star for your action at Dak To.

1982 H. Lieberman Late Call lxiii. 308 I'm a veteran with a silver star and a purple heart.

silver state n. U.S. a state producing silver, or advocating free coinage of silver; spec. (with capital initials) Nevada or, less frequently, Colorado.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado

Washoe1856

silver state1866

Sagebrush State1893

1866 Eastern Slope (Washoe, Nevada) 15 Sept. 4/1 The Silver State struck it rich when they elected H. G. Blasdel to the Gubernatorial chair.

1871 Harper's Mag. Oct. 799/1 In our early days in the Silver State females were rarely to be seen in the frontier mining camps.

1885 Weekly New Mexican Rev. 8 Jan. 4/2 All the silver states and territories [should] organize to resist the effort which the single standard advocates are making in congress to suspend the coinage of silver.

1946 Trail & Timberline May 74/1 Colorado miners had been looking for gold but silver became of such importance that when the Territory became a state in 1876, it was known as the Silver State and Georgetown was called the Silver Queen.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 10- c/2 It was a bluish-gray ore—silver—and Nevada is now appropriately nicknamed ‘The Silver State’.

silver steel n. a fine steel containing a small amount of silver.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > alloy steels

silver steel1831

Invar1902

high-speed steel1903

stalloy1906

Nitralloy1928

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 248 Silver steel, having the advantage of euphony.., becomes a popular denomination in the market.

silver-stick n. (see quot.).

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > lifeguard officer

silver-stick1882

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Silver-stick, the name given to a field-officer of the Life Guards when on palace duty.

† silver stone n. Obsolete a variety of granite.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > granite > varieties of

moorstone1461

silver stone1758

granitell1794

granitoid1794

rapakivi1794

ophthalmite1811

protogine1823

pegmatite1824

potash-granite1845

beresite1849

granitite1875

greisen1878

trowlesworthite1884

microgranite1888

charnockite1893

alaskite1900

Dartmoor granite1904

plagiogranite1959

1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 100 The Silver Stone..is of great lustre in the microscope, every other granite placed by its side looking flat and tame.

silver streak n. the English Channel; also attributive.

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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > English Channel

South SeaOE

mid-channel1518

sleeve1574

the Channel1588

silver streak1879

1879 Evening Standard 11 Nov. The answer of the citizens of London to the ‘silver-streak’ politicians.

1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge v The silver streak, on the other side of which is dear England.

silver string n. (see quot.).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > types of

wirea1387

false string1597

unison1603

unison string1633

drone1793

music wire1823

silver string1876

sympathetic strings1888

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 397/2 Silver strings, the covered strings used on violins, tenors, violoncellos, guitars, &c.

silver table n. (a) a table made of or plated with silver; (b) a table used for the display of silverware, frequently with raised edges (and a glass lid).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > display table

silver tablec1792

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables

dormant tablec1405

set board1512

chair-table1558

oyster table1559

brushing-table1575

stand board1580

table-chair1671

reading table1749

worktable1762

centre table1775

pier table1778

loo-table1789

screen table1793

social table1793

octoped1822

claw-table1832

bench table1838

mould1842

end table1851

pedestal table1858

picnic table1866

examining table1877

silver table1897

changing table1917

rent table1919

capstan table1927

conference table1928

tricoteuse1960

Parsons1962

overflow table1973

butcher's block1976

c1792 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) iii. xii. 279 Here's a silver table and stands and glass frame.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 I should probably catch hold of..the things off my silver-table.

1926 A. Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd iv. 33 What..is called a silver table, the lid of which lifts, and through the glass of which you can see the contents.

1975 Country Life 10 Apr. (Suppl.) 48 j/1 (caption) A really fine Chippendale period silver table of superb quality.

silver-tail n. (see quots.).

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > having good social position

goodOE

conditioned1632

visitable1765

swell1810

well-placed1814

silver-tail1898

quite1907

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > toff or swell

nob1676

swell1786

toff1851

silver-tail1898

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male

gallant1388

wamfler15..

rutter1506

younkera1522

fine gentleman1575

cavalier1589

whisker1595

jinglespur1604

bravery1616

brisk1621

chevalier1630

man about town1647

man of mode1676

man of distinction1699

sprag1707

sparky1756

blood1763

swell1786

Corinthian1819

galliard1828

mondain1833

toff1851

flâneur1854

Johnny1883

silver-tail1898

knut1911

lounge lizard1918

old buster1919

Hooray Henry1959

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 419 Silver-tail, a bush term for a ‘swell’; a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.

1908 E. G. Murphy Jarrahland Jingles 116 And when they're playing billiards in their flannel tennis suits, We feel like heaving something at these silvertail galoots.

1947 G. Casey Wits are Out ix. 125 ‘Mr Fleming doesn't build for basic-wage earners,’ Bill said nastily. ‘He hangs around waiting his chance to build for the silvertails.’

1978 Listener 9 Feb. 163/3 Mr Whitlam's enemies in his own Labor Party have called him a ‘silvertail’, meaning a social climber.

1979 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 11 Feb. 16/1 The Governor-General was, in the Premier's opinion, a super silvertail.

silver-tailed adj. (see quots.).

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective]

aristocratic1596

select1602

qualified1604

patrician?1614

classical1629

aristocratical1742

ruffle-shirted1805

connected1817

thoroughbred1821

upper1825

eupatrid1833

optimate1846

classy1870

silver-tailed1890

upper-bracket1945

upscale1966

1890 A. J. Vogan Black Police 116 Those upper circles..termed in Australian parlance ‘silver-tailed’, in distinction to the ‘copper~tailed’ democratic classes.

1902 Bladud 19 Feb. 14/2 During the Peninsular War the 61st were the ‘Silvertailed Dandies’, owing to the unusual amount of silver on the tails of the officers' coatees.

silver tea n. North American a tea party at which the guests make contributions (typically, of ‘silver’ coin) to charity.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party

school feast1708

tea1738

tea-treatc1748

tea-visit1765

tea-party1778

tea-drinking1781

thé1788

tea junketing1820

tea-night1823

tea-shine1838

tea-fight1849

tea soirée1850

muffin-worry1859

kettledrum1861

muffin-fight1876

pink tea1883

bun-worry1889

train tea1895

tea-meeting1897

bun-struggle1899

American tea1915

silver tea1921

bunfight1928

society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party

tea1738

tea-visit1765

tea-party1778

tea-drinking1781

thé1788

tea junketing1820

tea-night1823

cookie shine1830

tea-shine1838

tea-fight1849

tea soirée1850

muffin-worry1859

muffin-fight1876

coffee-party1886

kaffeeklatsch1888

bun-worry1889

train tea1895

tea-meeting1897

bun-struggle1899

silver tea1921

bunfight1928

klatsch1953

coffee morning1962

society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > charitable actions > tea party

silver tea1921

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Mar. 9/4 A silver tea will be held at the home of Mrs. H. Lloyd-Young..on Friday afternoon.

silver thaw n. the phenomenon of rain freezing as it falls and forming a glassy coating on the ground, trees, etc.; (see also quot. 1867).

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > fall of frost

silver thaw1770

verglas1808

1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 22 Dec. (1792) I. 73 There was a silver thaw in the morning, and it rained freely: very mild weather all the rest of the day.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 3 A phenomenon I have often seen in the woods of the transatlantic countries named above, where it is familiarly called silver-thaw.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 626 Silver-thaw, the term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed suddenly by a thaw.

1891 Standard 26 Dec. 3/3 A ‘silver thaw’ is the result of rain falling from a warmer current of air at some little distance above the earth.

silver thread n. used attributively to denote a variety of ironstone.

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > hard

ironstone1522

mine-stone1612

dogger1670

gubbin1712

iron clay1750

small balls1793

penny-stone1803

mine-stuff1839

silver thread1855

1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 193 Blue flats, silver thread, and diamond ironstone.

silver top n. U.S. a disease in grasses which whitens the upper part of the stalk.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > characterized by part affected or appearance produced

jaundice1600

black rot1769

root rot1831

leaf blight1849

leaf curl1850

black heart1862

icterus1866

albication1877

footrot1883

curl-leaf1886

silver top1890

stem-sickness1890

sleeping disease1899

mosaic1900

leaf mosaic1902

scorch1906

blotch1909

little leaf1911

ringspot1913

crinkle1920

vein banding1928

1890 American Naturalist 970 It is probable that these leaf-hoppers are responsible for much of the silver~top.

† silver web n. Obsolete a kind of confection in sugar.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections

sugar roset1363

sugar-work1572

sugar snow1611

moss1706

sugar puffa1711

silver web1769

sultana1862

chip1876

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 167 Observe you don't put too much Sugar down at a Time for a Silver Web.

silver wedding n. the twenty-fifth anniversary of a wedding (cf. silver-feast n.); (see also wedding n. 2b).

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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > wedding anniversary

wedding-anniversarya1684

silver wedding1849

golden wedding1850

tin wedding1863

pearl wedding1869

wooden wedding1870

diamond wedding1872

ruby wedding1879

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > anniversary > specific

silver-feast1796

silver wedding1849

golden wedding1850

wooden wedding1870

diamond wedding1872

1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 21 The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear..A silvery faint memorial music swells.

1861 Queen Victoria Let. 13 Feb. in Dearest Child (1964) 307 You must promise to be with us for our silver wedding D.V. which will be in four years.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 417 (note) ‘Silver’ and ‘Golden’ weddings are generally kept in the North.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 134 An old man on the verge of the silver-wedding he might have kept as Chancellor.

silver weight n. (a) the weight used for silver; (b) the equivalent weight in silver.

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society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > specific equivalent weights

talentc893

silver weightc1000

pennyweighta1398

solid1601

weight1890

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 92 Se sester sceal wegan twa pund be sylfyr gewyht.

a1400 Sir Beues 1725 For him a ȝaf seluer wiȝt, Er he þat hors haue miȝt.

† silver-worm n. Obsolete a glow-worm.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)

glow-wormc1320

gold worm?c1475

glowbard?a1500

silver-worm?a1500

glose-worm1519

glass-worm1552

glaze-worm1578

glare-worm1607

night-worm1774

glow-bug1781

fireworm1821

glow-beetle1860

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 766 Hic auriglus, a sylverwurme.

silver wreck n. a wrecked silver-ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > wrecked vessel

wrackc1386

wreck?a1500

carcass1600

racka1658

silver wreck1700

1700 Wallace Acct. New Caledonia in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) (1708) III. 421 He pretends it was to search for a Silver Wreck.

b. In names of animals, insects, etc.Various other names of moths, as silver bar, silver cloud, silver fringe, silver ground, etc., are given by Rennie (1832).

silverback n. a mature male mountain gorilla, Gorilla gorilla beringei, distinguished by one or more patches of white or silvery hair just below the back of the neck.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Gorilla (gorilla)

pongo1625

troglodyte1774

gorilla1853

gorilloid1946

silverback1964

1964 G. B. Schaller Year of Gorilla viii. 202 He was a silverback in the prime of life.

1975 J. Goulet Human Ape (1977) i. 5 The old silverback was having trouble breathing.

silver buckie n. (see quot. 1866).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Trochidae > member of genus Trochus

topa1682

whirl1708

shuttle1750

trochus1753

trochoid1839

silver buckie?1841

trochid1861

?1841 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 264 Our children call the shell Silver-buckies or Silver-Willies.

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 155 Siller-buckie, the Grey purple-streaked pyramid shell, (Trochus cinerareus).

† silver fly n. Obsolete (?).

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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 42 Herbivora Erinopteros,..the Silver-fly.

silver fox n. (a) a North American variety of the red fox with black silver-tipped hairs, the black fox; also transferred, the fur of this animal, esp. as a fashion item; (b) a fennec, Vulpes chama, found in southern Africa.

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1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 30 Dec. (1792) I. 76 On Niger Sound we saw a good silver fox.

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 148 Canis Argentatus (Silver Fox).

1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 150/1 Bordered..with silver-fox fur and lined with cream-coloured velvet.

1892 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 11/2 Three-quarter capes, quilted lined, trimmed silver fox, $4.

1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 559 The beautiful silver, or black fox,..is usually nearly or entirely black, with the exception of the tip of the tail, which is generally white.

1912 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Animal Life Afr. xv. 231 The Silver Fox (Vulpes chama)..is silvery-grey, the underneath parts being tawny in hue.

1936 A. Christie ABC Murders xix. 143 [She] wears very lovely clothes. That crêpe marocain and the silver fox collar—dernier cri!

1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie iv. 75 She lunched alone at the Ritz yesterday in a black wig, a battle bowler and her silver foxes.

1972 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VI. 170/2 The Cape or silver fox is found throughout the drier regions of South Africa.

silver gibbon n. the silvery gibbon ( Hylobates leuciscus).

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gibbon1774

lar1819

silvery gibbon1824

wow-wow1824

silver gibbon1893

1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 65 The grey or silver gibbon, or wou-wou,..comes from the island of Java.

silver jackal n. either of two South African animals, Canis mesomelas and Vulpes chama.

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1892 J. A. Nicolls & W. Eglington Sportsman in S. Afr. 95 The ‘Silver Jackal’, which is the largest and most common of the South African Jackals.

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silver lady n. (see silver-fish n. 2).

silver-line n. (also silver-lines) a species of moth.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > bena prasinana (silver-line)

silver-line1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 155 The Green Silver Lines.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist vi. 102 The Cream~spot Tiger moth,..the Green Silver-line.

silver-marmoset n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Platyrrhinae (New World monkey) > genus Callithrix (common marmoset)

Callithrix1572

wistiti1774

silver-marmoset1893

callitrichid1951

1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 192 The silver marmoset of Brazil (Hapale chrysoleucus).

silver moth n. any of various moths marked with silver.

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1893 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 5 ii. p. xlvi Mr. R. Trimen exhibited specimens of the ‘Silver Moth’ (Leto Venus) from the Knysna district of the Cape Colony.

silver-sprig n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > breed or variety of (miscellaneous) > silver-sprig

silver-sprig1799

sprig1859

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 385 The sort [is] silver sprig, which will not do well in other counties.

1804 M. Edgeworth Will i, in Pop. Tales I. 140 The true silver grey rabbits, silver-sprigs, they call them. Do you know that the skins of those silver-sprigs are worth any money?

silver-tip n. a grizzly bear with white-tipped hairs.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear

bruin1481

Russian bear1607

game-beara1640

white bear1791

grizzly bear1807

grizzly1808

old man1886

silver-tip1886

1886 Turf, Field & Farm 26 Mar. 238/1 A silver tip is bad enough when he's wounded, and about as active a bear as there is.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 70 The bear..was an old ‘silver-tip’, and a big one.

silver y n. (also silver y moth) the gamma moth.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Plusiidae > member of genus Plusia > plusia gamma (gamma moth)

gamma1799

silver y1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. Index Silver Y.

1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 329 The caterpillars of..Plusia Gamma (Silver Y Moth)..are of this description.

1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 65 The well-known Gamma Moth, or Silver Y.

c. In names of birds.

silver-bill n. (a) any of several birds of the genus Munia; (b) a South American tyrant bird of the genus Lichenops.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > member of genus Platyrhynchus > types of

loggerhead1657

walking tyrant1823

water-chat1834

silver-bill1883

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > genus Lonchura (silver-bill)

nutmeg bird1820

mannikin1875

nutmeg finch1881

silver-bill1883

1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 239 Munia malabarica, Indian Silver-bill. Hab. India.

1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 239 Munia cantans, African Silver-bill. Hab. North-east Africa.

1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 202 I have also seen gaucho boys catch the Silver-bill (Lichenops perspicillata) by hurling a stick or stone at the bird, then rushing at it.

† silver bird n. Obsolete some East Indian bird.

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1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 401 Some silver birds.

silver-dun n. a particular breed of domestic pigeon.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types

porcelainc1530

turn-pate1611

light horseman1661

runt1661

smiter1668

helmet1676

mammet1678

Cortbeck1688

turbit1688

turner1688

dragoon1725

finicking1725

Leghorn1725

nun1725

owl1725

petit1725

trumpeter1725

horseman1735

Mahomet1735

barbel1736

turn-tail1736

frill-back1765

blue rock1825

beard1826

ice pigeon1829

toy1831

black1839

skinnum1839

splash1851

whole-feather1851

spangle1854

swallow1854

shield1855

stork pigeon1855

Swabian1855

yellow1855

archangel1867

dragon1867

starling1867

magpie1868

smerle1869

bluette1870

cumulet1876

oriental1876

spot fairy1876

turbiteen1876

blondinette1879

hyacinth1879

Modena pigeon1879

silver-dun1879

silverette1879

silver-mealy1879

swift pigeon1879

Victoria1879

visor1879

ice1881

swallow pigeon1881

velvet fairy1881

priesta1889

frill1890

1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 187 The silver-duns are the aristocrats of the family.

silver-eye n. one of several birds of the genus Zosterops, distinguished by white rings round the eyes.

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1875 W. E. Atkinson Let. 16 Aug. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 399 I have also the mako mako, silver-eye, [etc.].., and besides the birds a great many shells.

1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 824/1 By most English-speaking people in various parts of the world the prevalent species of Zosterops is commonly called ‘White-eye’ or ‘Silver-eye’.

1911 A. E. Mack Bush Days 2 You will hear a whole chorus of bird notes..calling all together—thrushes, thickheads, silvereyes and peewees.

1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 129/2 Silvereyes..do much good by destroying scale-insects and other pests, and have thereby earned the name of blight-birds.

1977 Kuwait Times 23 Nov. 6/8 Three fell to Man, including a pigeon and a parrakeet. The rats have been responsible for at least five more (a thrush, a warbler, a fantail, a silvereye and a starling).

silver-mealy n. a breed of pigeon.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types

porcelainc1530

turn-pate1611

light horseman1661

runt1661

smiter1668

helmet1676

mammet1678

Cortbeck1688

turbit1688

turner1688

dragoon1725

finicking1725

Leghorn1725

nun1725

owl1725

petit1725

trumpeter1725

horseman1735

Mahomet1735

barbel1736

turn-tail1736

frill-back1765

blue rock1825

beard1826

ice pigeon1829

toy1831

black1839

skinnum1839

splash1851

whole-feather1851

spangle1854

swallow1854

shield1855

stork pigeon1855

Swabian1855

yellow1855

archangel1867

dragon1867

starling1867

magpie1868

smerle1869

bluette1870

cumulet1876

oriental1876

spot fairy1876

turbiteen1876

blondinette1879

hyacinth1879

Modena pigeon1879

silver-dun1879

silverette1879

silver-mealy1879

swift pigeon1879

Victoria1879

visor1879

ice1881

swallow pigeon1881

velvet fairy1881

priesta1889

frill1890

1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 149 Such kite-barred birds are termed ‘silver-mealies’ by Scotch breeders.

silver pheasant n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Lophura

silver pheasant1829

Swinhoe's1863

1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 23 The Silver Pheasants (Phasianus Nycthemerus).

1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 610/1 The gold and silver pheasants [of China, Lophura nycthemera] of our aviaries.

1861 C. P. Hodgson Resid. Japan 324 Silver pheasants come from Nambu, partridges from Sataki.

1876 Nature 1 June 121/2 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens..include a Silver Pheasant (Euplocamus nychthemerus).

1887 Beldon in Wright Illustr. Bk. of Poultry 366 The Silver-spangled Hamburgh, or Silver Pheasant as it is commonly called in Yorkshire.

silver plover n. (a) the red knot, Calidris canutus, in winter plumage; (b) (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing)

lapwingc1050

wypec1325

tewhita1525

peewita1529

black plover1538

bastard plover1544

green plover1550

lappoint1584

peesweep1772

peeweepa1825

lapwing-gull1844

flapjack1847

teeack1869

flop-wing1885

peewee1886

silver plover1890

1890 Cent. Dict. at Plover Silver plover.

1899 G. A. B. Dewar Wild Life Hampshire Highlands v. 130 The silver plovers or lapwings..are to be seen and heard in every direction.

1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) Silver plover, the gray plover, Squatarola helvetica.

silver-tongue n. U.S. the song-sparrow.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of > song-sparrow

song sparrow1810

swamp sparrow1811

rossignol1866

silver-tongue1884

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) iii. 371 M[elospiza] fasciata,..Song sparrow. Silver-tongue.

d. In names of fishes.A number of other American, and some Australian, fishes are also designated in this way, as silver bass, silver cero, silver chub, silver hake, etc.: see Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer. (1882), Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. (1884) and Amer. Fishes (1888), Morris Austral English (1898).

silver-belly n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Gerridae (moharra)

mojarra1846

silver-belly1882

silver bream1882

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 43 It is necessary to cook the silver-belly, as it is often called, perfectly fresh.

silver bream n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Gerridae (moharra)

mojarra1846

silver-belly1882

silver bream1882

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 43 Mr. Hill..speaks of a silver-bream or white-bream. It is probable he refers to Gerres ovatus, a common fish of very compressed form.

1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 10 Gerres ovatus, a small but delicious fish, known to the fishermen as ‘silver bream’, ‘silver bellies’, &c.

silver char n.

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1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 258 The two others were inscribed, the Red Charr, the Silver or Gilt Charr.

silver eel n. (see quots.); also, a young eel before the adult coloration is developed.

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1735 J. Swift & Sheridan Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 28 Nov. in J. Swift Wks. (1768) XIII. 143 For the rest, we are forced to take up with..silver eels, and such trash.

?1838 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 6. 175 Anguilla latirostris,..the Broad-nosed Eel... In the Tweed..it is distinguished from the others by the name of Silver-Eel.

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 910 (note) This species [Trichiurus lepturus] is known as ‘Sabre-fish’ and ‘Silver Eel’, on the coast of Texas.

1952 New Biol. 13 76 At the silver-eel stage..it is ready to descend the river again.

silver-eyes n. (see quot.).

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1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 35 These fishes are commonly known as sea-breams. One form termed silver eyes is said to pursue small fishes in Cardigan Bay.

silver garfish n. (see quots.).

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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Bill-Fish (Belone truncata), a small sea-fish fond of running up into fresh water during the summer... Also called Sea-pike, Silver Gar-fish.

silver king n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Megalopidae

ox-eyea1642

tarpon1699

megalops1834

savanilla1884

sabalo1889

silver king1889

megalopine1890

1889 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 164/1 No one..had fared any better than I as regards tarpon... No one could boast of having even hooked a ‘Silver King’.

1894 Cosmopolitan May 31/2 You never have seen the equal of the silverking—the grande coy—the tarpon.

silver lamprey n. (see quots.).

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1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 400 The Silver Lamprey is always of less size than the ordinary dimensions of the Lampern.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 359 Petromyzon fluviatilis,..Lampern and silver lamprey.

silver pike n. (see quot.).

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1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 109 Silver Pike, Esox argenteus... Native of New Zealand and other islands in the Southern Ocean.

silver salmon n. (see quot.).

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1878 J. G. Brady Let. May in S. Jackson Alaska (1880) vii. 209 A silver salmon, weighing thirty-eight to forty pounds, is sold for fifteen or twenty cents.

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 307 Oncorhynchus kisutch, Silver Salmon.

1901 Scotsman 26 Mar. 5/1 The silver salmon or coho..are freely taken by means of spinning.

silver-side n. (also silver-sides) (see quots.).

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1820 C. S. Rafinesque in Western Rev. 2 240 Silverside Fallfish... Vulgar names, Silverside, Shiner, [etc.].

1851 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) viii. 88 The purer streams from the hills abound in..silver-sides.

1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 26 Cynoscion carolinensis.., spotted sea-trout..; spotted silver-sides.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 225 Smelt or sand smelt... A local name is silver-sides, from its colour.

1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The brook-silversides is a graceful little fresh-water fish, Labidesthes sicculus.

1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 316/2 Some of the silversides (Atherinidæ) are wrongly called ‘smelts’.

1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. x. 284 In the brook silverside..there is a single elongate filament that serves first for temporary flotation.

1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. xi. 373 Refractive errors change by several diopters during such measurements on schooling fishes, such as the silver-side (Menidia).

silver sole n. (see quot.).

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1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 308 Silver Sole, Pleuronectes Argenteus..; native of the Indian seas.

silver-spot n. (see quot.).

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1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 300 The fishes of the family [Maurolicus] which we have denominated Silver-Spots.

silver trout n. North American any of several silvery trout, esp. Salmo gairdneri kamloops; also, = kokanee n.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook)

red fish1763

spring salmon1776

gorbuscha1784

keta1824

quinnat1829

Chinook salmon1851

coho1869

king salmon1871

silver trout1873

kokanee1875

salmon1884

sockeye1888

chisel-mouth1889

pink salmon1899

spring1900

tyee1902

pink1905

blackmouth1906

chum1908

greenback cut-throat1989

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout

troutc1050

torrentillec1460

torrentinea1475

troutlinga1739

troutlet1829

trouty1848

silver trout1873

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo irideus (rainbow trout)

rainbow1779

hardhead1792

mountain trout1805

brook trout1869

silver trout1873

rainbow trout1881

steel-head1882

1873 C. Hallock Fishing Tourist i. v. 30 To the above should be added the..brook-trout, the silver-trout, and the..salmon-trout.

1907 T. W. Lambert Fishing in Brit. Columbia 43 Every local fisherman speaks of having caught a red side or a silver trout, and firmly believes they are distinct species.

1937 Kootenay & City of Nelson, B.C. 62 The Kokanee or ‘Silver Trout’, which is in reality a landlocked Sockeye salmon abounds in the larger lakes of the districts.

1970 D. Waterfield Continental Waterboy i. 2 Enabling the silver trout to kokanee..to reach the formerly inaccessible river.

e. In names of plants or trees (see quots. and the various nouns).Some other names of this type, as silver feather, silver grass, silver hair-grass, silver lavender, are current in dialect or local use.

(a)

silver bell n. (also silver bell tree)

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > snowdrop tree and allies

halesia?1756

silver bell1785

snowdrop tree1813

1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 57 Silver-Bell Tree... The Corolla is of one petal, bell'd and bellied.

1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 123 The Snow-Drop Tree, Silver-Bell Tree, or Wild Olive.

1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 218 The Halesia, or Silver Bell, two species of which..are common in cultivation.

1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 505 Halesia tetraptera, the Silver-Bell or Snow-Drop Tree of the Southern United States.

silver bennet n.

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1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. xii. 79 Black and silver Bennets.

silver berry n.

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1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 381 Elæagnus argentea,..the Silver-Berry, may perhaps be found within our northwestern limits.

silver birch n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun]

bircha700

birch-tree1530

weeping birch1606

Our Lady's tree1608

black birch1674

sugar-birch1751

white birch1766

red birch1774

yellow birch1774

paper birch1791

canoe birch1810

mountain mahogany1810

old field birch1810

mahogany birch1813

towai1845

river birch1846

kamahi1867

silver birch1884

wire birch1899

1884 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 334 It is here that the finest specimens of silver birch are to be found.

silver chain n.

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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Silver-chain, the white laburnum.

silver chickweed n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > paronychia or whitlow-wort

nailwort1611

whitlow-wort1650

paronychia1666

silver chickweed1856

1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 62 Paronychia argyrocoma. Silver Chickweed.

silver fern n.

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1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 176 Gymnogramma. This genus is..distinguished by a yellow or white powdery substance, [and] hence called Gold and Silver Ferns.

1889 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 590/2 Gymnogramme,..of which G. chrysophylla and G. tartarea, both West Indian, are cultivated as the Golden Fern and Silver Fern.

silver-head n.

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1890 Cent. Dict. at Paronychia P. argyrocoma, the silver chickweed, or, as recently named, silverhead.

silver herb n.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tanaisie sauvage, Wild Tansie, Siluer hearbe.

silver knapweed n.

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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 591 The great siluer Knapweed hath at his first comming vp diuers leaues spred vpon the grounde, of a deepe greene colour.

silver oak n.

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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 220 Stenocarpus salignus,..‘Silver Oak’.

silver pine n. (also silver pine tree)

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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 664 [The tree] brought from the Cape of Good-hope, where it is called the Silver Pine.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 665 The Silver Pine-Tree.

silver thistle n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles

thistlec725

carduea1398

wolf's-thistlea1400

cardoona1425

wolf-thistle1526

cotton-thistle1548

gum-thistle1548

oat thistle1548

black chameleon1551

ixia1551

Saint Mary thistle1552

milk thistle1562

cow-thistle1565

bedeguar1578

carline1578

silver thistle1578

white chameleon1578

globe thistle1582

ball thistle1597

down thistle1597

friar's crown1597

lady's thistle1597

gummy thistle1598

man's blood1601

musk thistle1633

melancholy thistle1653

Scotch thistle1660

boar-thistle1714

spear- thistle1753

gentle thistle1760

woolly thistle1760

wool-thistle1769

bur-thistlea1796

Canada thistle1796

pine thistle1807

plume thistle1814

melancholy plume thistle1825

woolly-headed thistle1843

dog thistle1845

dwarf thistle1846

welted thistle1846

pixie glove1858

Mexican thistle1866

Syrian thistle1866

bull thistle1878

fish belly1878

fish-bone-thistle1882

green thistle1882

herringbone thistle1884

Californian thistle1891

winged thistle1915

fish-thistles-

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 526 Silver Thistel. This Thistel is called in..Englishe..Wilde white Thistell, and Argentine.

silver wattle n.

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1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt iii. 19 We camped among the butts of the Acacia affinis, or silver wattle.

1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) 1229/1 Silver Wattle, Acacia mollissima. Silver Wattle of Tasmania, Acacia dealbata.

1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 271/1 The beautiful cool grey-green of the silver wattle.

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silver beech n. an evergreen tree, Nothofagus menziesii, native to New Zealand (cf. Nothofagus n.); also, the timber of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian

tallow-tree1704

rata1773

rosewood1779

red mahogany1798

ironbark1799

wild orange1802

red gum1803

rewarewa1817

red cedar1818

black-butted gum1820

Huon pine1820

miro1820

oak1821

horoeka1831

hinau1832

maire1832

totara1832

blackbutt1833

marri1833

raspberry jam tree1833

kohekohe1835

puriri1835

tawa1839

hickory1840

whau1840

pukatea1841

titoki1842

butterbush1843

iron gum1844

York gum1846

mangeao1848

myall1848

ironheart1859

lilly-pilly1860

belah1862

flindosa1862

jarrah1866

silky oak1866

teak of New South Wales1866

Tolosa-wood1866

turmeric-tree1866

walking-stick palm1869

tooart1870

queenwood1873

tarairi1873

boree1878

yate1880

axe-breaker1884

bangalay1884

coachwood1884

cudgerie1884

feather-wood1884

forest mahogany1884

maiden's blush1884

swamp mahogany1884

tallow-wood1884

teak of New Zealand1884

wandoo1884

heartwood1885

ivorywood1887

Jimmy Low1887

Burdekin plum1889

corkwood1889

pigeon-berry ash1889

red beech1889

silver beech1889

turnip-wood1891

black bean1895

red bean1895

pinkwood1898

poplar1898

rose mahogany1898

quandong1908

lancewood1910

New Zealand honeysuckle1910

Queensland walnut1919

mahogany gum1944

Australian mahogany1948

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > beech

beech-timberc1450

beech-woodc1450

beech1823

silver beech1889

1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 175 The silver-beech..is known as ‘tawhai’ or ‘tawai’ by the Natives.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 8/3 Durability of..less than five years..Silver beech.

1966 Encycl. N.Z. I. 177/2 Silver beech.., a tree with small, thick, double-toothed leaves and a cherry-like bark on the branches and young trees, reaches heights of about 100 ft.

silver beet n. Australian and New Zealand the seakale beet, Beta vulgaris; = chard n.²

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > beet or beetroot > chard-beet or chard

chard1653

Swiss chard1832

silver beet1882

1882 Garden 15 Apr. 256/1 The Silver or Seakale Beet is grown for the sake of the midribs of the leaves.

1915 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Jan. 75 Early in February is a good time to sow silver-beet.

1951 J. Frame Lagoon 98 For dinner I had semolina and silver beet.

1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Feb. 2/4 Their hulls loaded down with taro, yams, chinese cabbage (rather like silver beet) and bananas.

1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 2/1 The novelty value of spaghetti bolognaise can often get over the hurdle of the silverbeet hidden in the sauce.

silver maple n. A. dasycarpum, of eastern North America; also silver-leaved maple, white maple.

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1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 246 The sugar and silver maple, Acer saccharinum, and A. dasycarpon.

1846 D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 95 Silver Maple, Silver-leaved Maple, [in] New York.

1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 4 207 They are almost entirely silver maples, embracing 25,000 trees.

1880 Harper's Mag. June 69 The clustered buds upon the silver maples burst in their exuberance.

1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arbor. Flora U.S. 288 Weeping Silver Maple..Variegated Maple, etc.

1929 E. W. Howe Plain People 20 The tree was called a silver maple, and we children believed that when it was old enough to bear, the fruit would be silver dollars.

silver poplar n. U.S. = white poplar n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(b)(ii).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun]

popple1229

popple-tree1229

abele?a1300

poplar1371

black poplar1542

white poplar1542

poppling1570

cotton tree1633

tacamahac1739

Lombardy poplar1766

poplar pine1770

Po poplar1776

grey poplar1782

cottonwood1787

pine poplar1789

liard1809

white-backa1825

necklace poplar1845

silver poplar1847

weather-tree1847

hackmatack1873

bitter-weed1878

balsam-poplar1884

Russian poplar1884

Lombardy1917

1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 332 Silver Poplar... Some of the grass-plats in the public squares of New York have been quite over-run by the wide-spreading suckers of this tree.

1853 B. F. Taylor Jan. & June (1871) 80 The leaves of the Silver poplar, in breaths of air the faintest, go all day like French clocks.

1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 4 448 The Silver Poplar is an abominable pest in loose soil, casting up suckers.

1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 173 A branch of the Silver Poplar.

1880 Harper's Mag. June 21/2 The silver-poplars showed only their leaden side.

silversword n. a perennial herb, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, of the family Compositæ, native to Hawaii and bearing linear leaves with silvery hairs and clusters of purplish flowers.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants

wild sagea1400

yellow devil's-bita1400

white golda1425

cotula1578

golden cudweed1597

golden tuft1597

rattlesnake root1682

Cape tansy?1711

hawkbit1713

ambrosia1731

cabbage tree1735

hog's eye1749

Osteospermum1754

ox-tongue1760

scentless mayweed1800

old man's beard1804

ox-eye1818

echinacea1825

sheep's beard1836

shepherd's beard1840

cat's-ear1848

goatweed1869

silversword1888

khaki bush1907

venidium1937

khaki bos1947

Namaqualand daisy1963

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [adjective] > of other composite plants

silversword1937

1888 W. Hillebrand Flora Hawaiian Islands 219 The ‘Ahinahina’ of the natives and ‘Silversword’ of the foreigners.

1898 J. A. Owen Hawaii ii. 40 The peculiar Silver-sword growing in the snowy region.

1917 Nature 100 57/2 Among the peculiar plants of the island is the silversword.

1937 Discovery Mar. 83 Not the least puzzling of the specialised animal and plant species of the Hawaiian Islands is the six-foot Silver~sword flower.

1965 P. Wylie They both were Naked ii. vi. 302 A silver-sword plant..grows only on a few high places on two islands [of Hawaii].

silver willow n. a variety of the white willow, Salix alba var. sericea, distinguished by silvery foliage.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow

red willow1547

water willow1583

goat's willow1597

rose willow1597

sweet willow1597

French willow1601

siler1607

palm-withy1609

sallowie1610

swallowtail willow1626

willow bay1650

black willow1670

crack-willow1670

grey willow1697

water sallow1761

almond willowa1763

swallow-tailed willow1764

swamp willow1765

golden osier1772

golden willow1772

purple willow1773

sand-willow1786

goat willow1787

purple osier1797

whipcord1812

Arctic willow1818

sage-willow1846

pussy willow1851

Kilmarnock willow1854

sweet-bay willow1857

pussy1858

palm willow1869

Spaniard1871

ground-willow1875

Spanish willow1875

snap-willow1880

diamond willow1884

sandbar willow1884

pussy palm1886

creeping willow1894

bat-willow1907

cricket bat willow1907

silver willow1914

1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 475 Silver Willow.—This is the most striking of all the forms of S[alix] alba in the intense silvery hue of its leaves.

1976 Country Life 18 Mar. 682/3 A group of silver willows..are annually pollarded.

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silver fox n. colloquial a handsome man with silver-grey hair; cf. fox n. 2c.Attested earliest as a nickname.

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1953 H. Caen Don't call it Frisco 67 Despite his dashing nickname of ‘The Silver Fox’..Joe wasn't an especially dashing figure.

1974 Bee (Danville, Va.) 16 Oct. 10 d/6 Country music's ‘Silver Fox’, Charlie Rich.

1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Nov. The golden-boy politician turned into a silver fox at 50.

2015 Radio Times 27 June (South/West ed.) 4/3 Judi Dench, Bill Nighy et al..are joined by suave silver fox Richard Gere.

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silver gamma n. now rare (also more fully silver gamma moth) the silver Y moth, Autographa gamma.

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1883 Househ. Words 14 July 197/1 We have frequently..disturbed and caught seven or eight specimens of..the burnished brass moth..and more still of its relatives the Golden and Silver Gammas.

1890 Essex Naturalist 4 9 (note) At Heligoland on the night from Aug. 6th to 7th, S.E., a considerable flight of the ‘Silver Gamma Moth’, Plusia gamma.

1903 Garden 179/2 The Michaelmas Daisies are also much appreciated, but more especially by moths, the silver gamma often haunting the plants in hundreds.

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silver nitrate n. Chemistry and Photography a soluble white salt which is weakly light sensitive and was formerly used in the preparation of photographic plates and films.Formula: AgNO₃.

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1789 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. de Fourcroy Suppl. to Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. 314 Causticum lunare—Fused nitrate of silver.]

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 496/2 To prepare the acid from this salt, it is dissolved in nitric acid, and silver nitrate added.

1884 Photogr. News 3 Oct. 630/2 Before toning, the prints must be washed..to remove all traces of free silver nitrate.

1954 W. G. Palmer Exper. Inorg. Chem. 150 Well-crystallized silver carbonate may be readily obtained by passing a slow stream of carbon dioxide through an ammoniacal solution of silver nitrate.

2003 New Yorker 17 Feb. 198/3 The plates were bathed in light-sensitive silver nitrate, exposed while still wet, rushed to a darkroom and developed.

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silver surfer n. [with punning allusion to Silver Surfer, the superhero of a 1960s Marvel comic book; compare sense B. 5b] colloquial an elderly or retired person who uses the internet.

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1997 Progressive Grocer June 9/1 Silver surfers: Senior citizens are the latest generation of consumers to qualify as diehard Net browsers.

2004 D. Perrons Globalisation & Social Change vi. 184 Users vary from silver surfers planning holidays..[to] children and teenagers chatting, downloading music and playing games.

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单词	silver
释义	silvern.adj. Brit. /ˈsɪlvə/, U.S. /ˈsɪlvər/ Forms: α. Old English siolfor ( siolofr-, siolufr-), seolfor, seolfur, seolfer ( seolfr-, seulfr-), Middle English seoluer ( seolur-, seolure), soluer, solure. β. Middle English selfer ( selfr-), selfur; Middle English seluer ( selur-, zeluer), selver. γ. Old English sylofr, sylfor, sylfur, Middle English syluer, sylure; Old English sulfer ( suulfr-), Middle English suelfer, suluer. δ. Old English silofr, Middle English sillferr; Middle English–1600s siluer (Middle English silure, siluere, 1500s–1600s Scottish silwer), Middle English– silver; Middle English–1500s siluir, silvir (Middle English siluire, siluyre); Middle English syluere ( cyluere), Middle English–1600s syluer (Middle English cyl-), Middle English–1600s sylver (Middle English sylfer, 1500s sylvar); Middle English syluyre, syluir, Middle English–1500s sylvir; Middle English sylure, sylwor, 1500s syluur. ε. Scottish1500s syller, 1500s– siller. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English siolfor, seolfor, etc., = Old Frisian selover, selver (later selvir, silver; West Frisian sulver, dialect selver), Old Low Frankish silver (Middle Dutch silver, selver, sulver, Dutch zilver), Old Saxon siluƀar, siloƀar (Middle Low German and Low German silver, sülver, sulver, etc.), Old High German sil(a)bar, silbir, etc. (Middle High German and German silber), Old Norse silfr (Icelandic silfur, Swedish silfver; Middle Swedish silf, self, sylf, Norwegian sylv, Danish sølv), Gothic silubr. Related forms are found in the Balto-Slavonic languages, as Old Church Slavonic sĭrebro, Russian serebro, Polish śrebro, etc., Lithuanian sidabras, Latvian sudrabs; as to the relationship of these and the ultimate origin of the word no definite conclusions have been established. A. n. 1. a. One of the precious metals (in general use ranking next to gold), characterized in a pure state by its lustrous white colour and great malleability and ductility. Chemical symbol Ag.Various forms of the metal, pure or mixed with other substances, are distinguished by defining terms, as antimonial, bromic, horn, native, red, ruby silver; capillary, shell silver, etc. The name is also given to several natural or artificial substances resembling or imitating the real metal, as cat, German, inflammable, mock silver. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [noun] silverc825 moona1500 Ag1814 Tree of Diana1849 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > silver silverc825 lunac1386 argenta1533 plate1559 Diana1706 β. c825 Vesp. Psalter lxv. 10 Swe mid fyre bið amearad seolfur. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvii. 268 Ðonne bið hit swiðe leaslice on siolofres [v.r. siolufres] hiewe. 971 Blickl. Hom. 127 Nu hit is mid golde & mid seolfre gefrætwod. a1175 Cott. Hom. 227 Hi worhtan ham anlicnessen, sum of golde, sum of selfre. a1225 Leg. Kath. 493 Þeos maumez beoð imaket of gold, & of seoluer. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 4/115 Of seluer and of gold one riche schrine heo wrouȝte. a1400 Bible (Paues) 1 Cor. iii. 12 Gold, oþer selfer, oþer precyous stones. 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 32 vj disshes & vj Sawcers of seluer. δ. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John p. 188 Mid suulfre ofer~gylded.OE Riddle 14 2 Nu mec wlonc þeceð geong hagostealdmon golde ond sylfore.a1300 E.E. Psalter lxv. 9 Þou fraisted vs, als siluer fraisted isse.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xi. 7 Imange all metalles nan is þat swetterly chymes þan syluere.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 77 Cyluer, argentum.1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 42 A peyre of bedys of sylvir.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi^v Saynt Gregory..sayth, that electrum is a myxture of syluer & golde myngled togyther.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 104 Deck't with Coperasse, With Gold and Siluer, Lead and Mercurie.1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B4^v There likewise should you behold a Mine of Siluer, ambitiously aspiring to bee as glorious Gold.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 269 The Silver here, and all over the Kingdom of Mexico, is said to be finer and richer in proportion than that of Potosi or Peru.a1771 T. Gray tr. T. Tasso in Wks. (1814) II. 92 Sulphureous veins and living silver shine.1779 Mirror No. 17 A crooked piece of silver, which he, at first, mistook for a shilling.1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 42 Silver..burns more readily than platinum or gold.1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 359 Silver is obtained from its ores chiefly by roasting, crushing, and amalgamation with mercury.figurative.a1628 J. Preston Breast-plate of Faith (1631) 187 The good~man..there is silver and golde in his speeches and actions, that is, they are likewise precious.1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 45 His tongue was silver and his heart was fire.ε. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. i. sig. Bii^v As bright as any syller,..& straight as any pyller.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i With spraings like gowd, and siller cross'd with black. †b. transferred. Quicksilver. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > mercury quicksilvereOE mercuryc1395 argent-vive1453 hydrargyrum1563 silver1607 spirit1661 quick1852 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. E1 Siluer selfe-mouing, we call Siluer-quick. c. With a and plural. A piece or strip of silver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > silver > piece or strip of silver silver1856 1856 Orr's Circle Sci., Pract. Chem. 80 They are connected, all the zincs by one wire, and all the silvers by another wire. d. elliptical for silver medal n. at Compounds 2a (see sense silver cord n. (a) at Compounds 2a below). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes garland?a1513 plate1639 cupc1640 dog plate1686 gold medal1694 gold cup1718 sweepstake1773 trophy1822 bronze medal1852 shield1868 statuette1875 pot1885 team honours1895 letter1897 silver medal1908 school colour1913 gold1945 bronze1960 silver1960 Fed Cup1965 1960 Times 5 Sept. 4/6 Hill..was representing a Germany united for Olympic purposes, which won three gold and a silver. 1968 Guardian 22 Oct. 1/1 Major Alhusen, aged 55, won the silver in the individual event, and was only two points off taking the gold. 1979 ‘D. Grant’ Moscow 5000 i. 19 Notes that would help him to win an Olympic medal. Because he would have the Silver, he told himself. 2. a. The metal regarded as a valuable possession or medium of exchange; hence, silver coin; also (chiefly Scottish), money in general. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) silver coin silverc825 platea1275 whitea1393 white money1423 argentc1500 pringle1683 α. c825 Vesp. Psalter civ. 37 Dryhten..utalædde hie in seolfre & golde. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John p. 188 Æhtu ora seulfres. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1102 Þeofas..þær inne naman mycel to gode on golde & on seolfre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7509 Ȝe.. senden after cnihtes & ȝeuen heom soluer & gold. c1275 in Old Eng. Misc. 89 Habbe he þe yeftes of seoluer and of golde. β. a1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Ne haue ðu hope te golde ne to seluer.c1250 Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 188 Euer of þe purse þat seluer heo tulleþ.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 6 Aye þise heste zeneȝeþ þo þet to moche louieþ hire guod gold oþer zeluer.1472 Presentmts. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 24 Yf it cane be prewyd þat he his bed [= is bid] no selver tharfor.a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 745 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 324 Seluer he [sc. the almoner] deles rydand by way.γ. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlviii. 368 Gold & sylofr ic him sealde genoh.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 9 Nallas ge agnege gold ne sulfer [Rushw. sylfur] ne feh on gyrdilsum iurum.1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1135 Wua sua bare his byrthen gold & sylure.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1783 Wenne þu wult more suluer [c1300 Otho seoluer] sæche hit at me suluen.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7779 Þe king in such manere suluer wan ynou.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 116 Þe meyre hue by~souhte Of alle suche sellers suluer to take.δ. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlviii. 368 Ðonne he doð..ðæt silofr to diofolgieldum.1128 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1128 Se kyng..micele gersumes him geaf on gold & on silure.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 228 [They] waren al to gradi of siluer and of golde.c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4434 He sal gyf þam..Of gold and silver gret plente.1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 20 Þe siluer þat schal be reseyvyd for þe londes.1484 Coventry Leet Bk. 517 To gedur syluer for the Reparacion of the same.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 385 The vther..Concludit schortlie for to slea him, For vyling of his syluer fra him.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxii. 295 I meane by profitable plants, those, which..bring silver to theyr maisters.1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 201 He hath bequeathed all his siluer to me: ergo, his ready money.1800 P. Gosein Narr. Journey of Teshoo Lama in Acct. Embassy to Court of Teshoo Lama 471 He afterwards distributed silver, to the amount of four lacks of rupees.1845 R. Browning Lost Leader in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 1 Just for a handful of silver he left us.ε. c1720 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser i Am I forc'd to die, And nae mair my dear siller see?1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 Ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller.1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vii. 148 She'll hae a hantle siller.1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 48 Nobody will lend him siller.1896 W. Harvey Kennethcrook 52 (E.D.D.) It was seldom the weaver would come to any terms other than ‘siller doon’. †b. The price in silver of something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price in silver silver1411 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 Þat alle þe londes..be sold, and þe Siluer þere-of spendyd to þe avauncement of lucie, my dowter. 3. Articles made of silver or an alloy of silver; silverware, silver-plate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver > articles silvera1400 presentation silver1511 silver-work1535 silver plate1610 silverware1862 a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 1156 He dude seruen Olympias In golde, in siluer [v.r. seolver], in bras, in glas. c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxvi In siluer sa semly þai serue þame of the beste. c1479 Inventory of Plate in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 602 ij lynen bagges..with broke siluer and j old harneis gilt. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 313 The Persians for the most part eat in Porcellane or earth, not valuing Silver. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. vi. 108 The profusion of gold and silver, that glittered on the sideboards. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 188 [He] Sipt wine from silver. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 41 For cups and silver on the burnish'd board Sparkled and shone. plural.1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights xii, in Poems 55 A million tapers flaring bright From wreathéd silvers. 4. The metal as used for the ornamentation of textile fabrics; silver thread. cloth of silver: see cloth of silver at cloth n. 9c. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver goldOE fildora1350 gold or silk threadc1386 purl1394 silver1423 shreda1450 Venice gold1506 Venice silver1574 spun gold1728 passing1848 tambour1899 1423 Rolls of Parl. IV. 255/1 Brauderie..wrought with Gold or Silver of Cipre. 1566 in D. H. Fleming Mary Q. of Scots (1897) 499 Ten hankis off gold and ten hankis of silver the fynest that can be gottin. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 18 Cloth a gold and cuts, and lac[']d with siluer . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 69 Her Bed-chamber..was hang'd With Tapistry of Silke, and Siluer . View more context for this quotation 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel v. xvi. 141 His cloak was all of Poland fur, His hose with silver twined. 5. As a tincture in heraldry, more commonly called argent n. 3, but cf. quot. 1869. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > silver or white silver1478 argent1562 moon1572 pearl1572 seraphim1586 luna1709 crystal1830 1478 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1909) 9 384 A cross engrayled gold or bythwen foure rosses silver, and to his tymbre a gauntellet sillver sette in a wrethe gold. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 415 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 A lyoun..Of siluer ȝe se shold To Ramp in array. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 4 Called Siluer, and blased by the name of Argent. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Metal In Engraving [arms], Gold is expressed by dotting the Coat, &c. all over; Silver, by leaving it quite blank. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxxii. 215 Saint Andrew's cross, in blazonry Of silver, waving wide! 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) iii. 48 In blazoning a charge..supposed to be actually composed of metal..the terms gold and silver must be employed. 6. A silvery colour or lustre. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light > of specific colour or lustre silver1481 pearliness1760 metallic1976 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > silveriness silver1481 argentry1852 silveriness1856 moonlight1904 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 80 Wherin stode somme strange hystoryes whiche were of gold, of sable of siluer. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 150 By yonder blessed Moone I sweare, That tips with siluer all these fruit trees tops. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 310 The willow such, And poplar, that with silver lines his leaf. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 106 See the pale azure fading into silver. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lviii. 527 There were scarce three lines of silver in her soft brown hair. 1896 W. Black Briseis xvii A swan came breasting along,..leaving behind it two flashing divergent lines of silver. 7. a. A variety of insect, fish, bird, etc., having silvery colouring or markings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > silver coloured animal silver1832 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [noun] > specific colours silver1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 76 The Tawny Silver. 1875 Spectator (Melbourne) 19 June 81/1 Common fish, such as..garfish, strangers, silvers, and others. 1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 96 Silvers are divided into what is called brown barred and black-barred. 1903 F. Simpson Bk. Cat xii. 138 At present our silvers are too full of tabby markings. 1934 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 211 There are four distinct species of salmon which run up the Columbia: the chinook, silver, sockeye, and chum. 1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 72/3 The other five salmon species, all on the Pacific Coast, are the Chinook (also called the king salmon), the sockeye, the silver, the humpback, and the chum. b. Photography. A salt of silver, esp. nitrate of silver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer emulsion1840 collodion1851 sensitizer1854 nitrate bath1858 collodio-bromide1864 organifier1873 silver bath1878 bromide emulsion1885 silver1891 sensibilizer1900 panchromatic1906 nuclear emulsion1949 1891 in Cent. Dict. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 61 In the dark room add the silver to the collodion. B. adj. 1. a. Made or consisting of silver.These collocations may be employed as the base of formations like silver medallist (see silver cord n. (a) at Compounds 2a), silver trumpeter, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > silver > made of silver silvernc888 silver1032 argentinea1538 1032 in Anglia XI. 8 Do hi ealle to gædere þæt þritig seolfor sticca. ?1366 Romaunt Rose 97 A sylvre nedle forth I drogh Out of an aguiler. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8242 A siluer cercle. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4858 He..did a siluer cupe at hide, In a sek. 1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 58 One of my siluere girdeles. 1457–8 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 297 To ber ii. sylver masys befor the Baylyfys. 1486 Bk. St. Albans c vij Clense theym clene with a syluer spone. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 270/1 Sylver vessell, uessaile dargent. 1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 114 Quhy iuge ȝe the goldin and siluir chalissis? 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 33 The manufacture of gold and sylver thrydd. 1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 440 I am sure without this my Lord St. Alban's would not have left a silver spoon in the house. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion v. 55 I caused a Watch to be suspended by a little Silver-chain. 1725 Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 83 Plenty of silver tumblers. 1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 79 The size of the watch is something less than a silver two-pence. 1808 W. Scott in Lockhart (1869) III. xviii. 159 I..have only hopes that he may be shot with a silver bullet. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 345/1 The British silver coinage consists of crowns, half-crowns [etc.]. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 84 You will value the old silver inkstand. b. In figurative contexts. (See also spoon n.) ΚΠ 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. v. 764 We schollers fish for a liuing in these shallow foardes without a siluer hoock. 1605 N. Breton Honour of Valour viii. 5 in Wks. (1966) I To fish for honour with a siluer hooke. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Combattre Those that with siluer weapons fight are sure to ouercome. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 2 The Silver Key will open the strongest Gates of the strictest Monastery. 1798 W. Hutton Life 41 I was given to understand that the door, contrary to other doors, would not open with a silver key. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel v. xiii. 139 True love..is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie [etc.]. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xiii. 22 They may be bribed, as we proved..when our cavalcade passed the barriers with a silver key. c. Containing threads of silver, or some imitation of this. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > metallic silver1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Threads of pure Silver, interwove like a Silver Galoon, that has been burnt to get out the Silk. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 298 Silver-twist-hackle. Dub with the herl of an ostrich feather. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-lace, wire coated with silver, and woven into lace. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 225/1 The Gold and Silver Laces of the present day consist of warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton combined. d. Mounted or plated with silver; wrapped in silvered paper. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with silver harnessed1426 silver-headed1760 silver-studded1882 silver1898 1898 Daily News 6 Apr. 5/3 The prizes include silver handglasses and scent-bottles. 1904 Windsor Mag. Jan. 238/2 Tiny silver comfits wedged into every available little space. 2. a. Producing or yielding silver. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > silver silver1478 silverish1648 argentific1671 argentiferous1801 silvery1870 1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 28 Beereferys vbi lez syluer mynes fodiuntur. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 798 Hec argentifodina, a sylverquarelle. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Argentaria fodina, a..syluer myne. c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 1 The precious earth of golde and siluer mines. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zilver-ader, a Silver-veine. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 6 With all the Silver Mountains of Peru. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 257 They have for a long time been working it as a rich silver mine. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall x. 284 As true silver-lodes are found in it, it may also be termed argentiferous. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 344 Some promising silver~lodes have lately been taken up. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 9 A promising market for various silver properties. b. U.S. (See quot. 1896.) ΚΠ 1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/1 The ‘Silver Senators’—that is, the representatives of silver-producing States. 3. a. Of or pertaining to, connected with, characteristic of, silver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > silver silver?1605 lunar1801 argental1816 ?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. T2 Riuers of Nectar ran an [sic] golden Sand (With siluer-cleerenesse) through that Pardice. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. iv. 262 The..gold-smith in the siluer-streete. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 33 Near to which are conveniently placed the Smelting and Refining Mills, which therefore are called the Silver Mills. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. ii. i. 324 White Silver Ore, or of a silver-colour, from Cremnitz in Hungary. 1813 Edinb. Rev. 22 148 Von Buch engaged a place in the silver-waggon. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 158/1 Our gold and silver standards similarly stated would be 917 and 925 respectively. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 73/2 This alleged fall, its causes, consequences, and remedies, constitute the ‘Silver Question’. b. Denoting compounds of which silver forms a part. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [adjective] > in compounds silver1797 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 442/1 Some silver amalgama is pressed upon it through a chamois skin. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 8 Silver-salts exposed to light become black by the absorption of oxygen. 1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 359 When chlorine gas is passed over fused silver fluoride, silver chloride is formed. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 123/1 Gold of 20 carats with 4 carats of silver alloy. c. Of or pertaining to silver articles or silverware. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [adjective] > relating to gold or silver articles goldc1230 friezed1587 silver1648 Paul Revere1882 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zilver-schappraeye, a Silver-cupboord. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2149/4 Whoever shall give notice thereof unto any Officer of the King's Silver Scullery, shall have two Guinea's Reward. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6364/1 The Officers of the Board of Greencloth, or Silver Scullery. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Apr. 5/1 Finding that the silver trade has rejected..what he proposed as a boon. d. Advocating, relating to, etc., the adoption of silver as a currency or standard. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [adjective] > types of currency system bimetallic1876 monometallic1877 silver1879 monometallist1886 trimetallic1887 bimetallistic1889 symmetallic1895 off-gold1935 single currency1952 1879 Bradstreet's 22 Oct. 5/1 The silver men are as violent and rampant as ever. 1890 Daily News 10 Feb. 2/4 Why should we not have stored bullion instead? Silver men will probably answer [etc.]. 1893 Nation 29 June 467/1 The very little game which our silver-bugs..are trying to play on us. 1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 271 The silver cabal won at every point. 4. a. Used for holding (silver) money. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [adjective] > attributes of purse silver1526 well-lined1573 1526 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 402 Every man or woman which makith aquavitie, honied alle [or] singill alle to be ratiffied and sold, to paye the accostomid ratte to the silver boxe. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 148 Gin ony..has na lous'd his siller pocks. a1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 110 Misers make Their heaven o' a siller bag. †b. Scottish. Of payments, etc.: Made or levied in (silver) money. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [adjective] > made or levied in silver silver1579 1579 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 143 To pay to thame the..sylvir prices and maillis of the samyn. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Firmarius Firma signifies the duty quhilk the tennent paies to the landis-lord, quhidder it be siluer-maill, victuall, or vther duetie. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 332 Setting..lyff-rents successive for peyment of small silver-dewtie. a1688 in G. Dallas Syst. Stiles (1697) 279 Which Lands..amount in yearly free Rent..to [so much] Silver-Rent. 1764 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) iv. ii. 450 Even intromission with the silver rent. c. Played for stakes in silver coin. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [adjective] > played for high stakes high1640 silver1748 no-limit1915 high-stakes1922 1748 H. Walpole Let. 26 May (1846) II. 223 There were silver pharaoh and whist for the ladies. 5. a. Having the whiteness or lustre of silver; silvery. Chiefly poetic. silver lining: see lining n.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > silvery whiteOE silverc1405 silverish1530 argentine1578 argenta1593 silver-coloured1594 silver-white1598 silver-like1611 silvery1611 argenteous1881 silvern1885 the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light > of or like precious stones, metals, or fabrics > with a silvery lustre silverc1405 silver-coloured1594 silveredc1600 silvery1611 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > expression of optimism [phrase] never feara1593 silver lininga1616 (it will be) all right on the night1908 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 636 And firy Phebus..dryeth in the greues The siluer dropes hangynge on the leues. c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 937 The freshnes of the clere wellys..Made the colde siluer stremes To shyne ageyn the sonne bemes. c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 1316 The lusty Silvir dewh in the grene meedys. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 410 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 Ane..bure in till asure..Siluer sternis so faire. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 46 This precious stone set in the siluer sea. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 112 Here lay Duncan, His Siluer skinne, lac'd with his Golden Blood. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 32 Fair Galathea, with thy silver Feet, O, whiter than the Swan. a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 86 Yonder Star..with silver light Relumes her crescent orb to cheer the dreary night. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 202 In gentler climes their silver currents flow. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xii A lodging..which looked out upon the silver Thames (for Thames was silver then). 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iv. xv. 257 Brightening more and more with the silver dawn. b. Of the hair, beard, or head, when white with age. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary grey1207 hoarc1290 frostya1450 forhoaredc1450 grizzled1458 hoary1530 hoared1557 greyish1567 wintry1579 silver1590 silveredc1600 silver-grey1607 frosted1628 iron-grey1809 iron-greyed1826 grizzly1843 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. E^v Auncient men, vpon whose siluer heads the Almond-tree hath blossomde. 1592 J. Lyly Midas ii. i If one be olde, & haue siluer haires on his beard. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. i. sig. H4 This speech hath siluer haires, and reuerence asks. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. xl. 94 Her silver heads adorning (Her dotage index). 1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs II. x. 275 The long silver beard..hung over his hands. 1842 Ld. Tennyson May Queen (new ed.) Concl. iv, in Poems (new ed.) I. 170 O blessings on his kindly heart and on his silver head! 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxii. 115 To reverence and the silver hair. View more context for this quotation in extended use.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 43 You (lord Archbishop)..Whose beard the siluer hand of Peace hath toucht. View more context for this quotation1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 60 in Poems No silver rev'rence guards the stooping age. 6. a. Of sounds: Having a clear gentle resonance like that of silver; soft-toned, melodious. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > gentle or not harsh > gentle and clear silver1526 liquida1637 flute-like1729 fluty1823 silvery1824 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > timbre or quality > pure or clear brightOE silver1526 silvered1642 purea1791 silvery1824 pellucid1952 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. CCCiii We shall yelde a benigne & gentyll answere, & gyue a swete syluer sounde as the tryed syluer. 1592 N. Breton C'tess Penbrooke's Love vii Some brought in musicke of most siluer sounde. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 93 A Swaine (with Lawrell crown'd) Marrying his sweet Noates with their siluer sound. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiii, in Poems 7 Let your silver chime Move in melodious time. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 426 The vaulted roof..Reflecting to the Queen the silver sounds. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Viol d'amour It yields a kind of silver sound, at once so soft, sweet, and tender, as to have given birth to the name by which it is known. 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. iii. 53 He recalled..her silver voice. 1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes 160 A mingled stream of music, light, and silver laughter. b. Eloquent, persuasive, sweet-spoken. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent well-speakingOE renablec1300 fair-speakinga1398 well-tonguedc1480 honey-mouthed1539 golden-mouthed1542 sweet-mouthed1542 fine-mouthed?1549 silver-tongued1592 silver1594 gold-mouthed1595 honey-tongued1595 nectar-tongued1596 tongue-gilt1608 feather-tongueda1618 chrysostomatical1623 dulciloquent1656 sweet-spoken1716 sweet-lipped1783 chrysostomic1816 smooth-spoken1821 superfluent1822 honey-lipped1833 nice spoken1852 articulate1892 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > mellifluous sugaredc1440 mellifluous?a1475 sugratife1509 sugurat?a1513 sugary1591 silver1594 silken1598 mellfluvious1600 mellifluent1601 1594 in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 12 As worthie subjects of your silver pen. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 35 Serjeant such a one has a Silver Tongue at the Bar. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek iv It must be such a silver tongue as never yet spoke that could persuade any nation [etc.]. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xv, in Writings I. 150 Mr...Crawley; to whose silver tongue the world owed the liberty of many a ruffian. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 198 I..would give my eyes for..the silver tongues of them. 7. poetic. a. Soft, gentle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adjective] stillc825 tamec888 nesheOE mildeOE softOE lithea1000 daftc1000 methefulOE sefteOE meekc1175 benign1377 pleasablea1382 mytha1400 tendera1400 unfelona1400 mansuetea1425 meeta1425 gentlec1450 moy1487 placablea1522 facile1539 effeminate1594 silver1596 mildya1603 unmalicious1605 uncruel1611 maliceless1614 tender-hefteda1616 unpersecutive1664 baby-milda1845 rose water1855 turtlish1855 unvindictive1857 soft-boiled1859 tenderful1901 soft-lining1967 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg5^v All the night in siluer sleepe I spend. View more context for this quotation b. Prosperous, happy. Cf. silver age n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places golden?a1439 wealthyc1460 Saturnian1592 silver1659 millenary1700 heroic1793 Pericleana1822 flush1840 millennial1859 belle époque1957 1659–60 Ph. Skippon's Petit. to Citie of London 1 Alas, those Silver daies are done, and this iron Age hath overtaken your poor Petitioner. 8. Of or pertaining to the silver age of Latin (see silver age n. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary period classical1546 preclassic1869 Gustavian1884 silver1889 pre-classical1948 Sangam1955 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of or relating to Latin > silver age of Latin silver1889 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop 14 Some of the fables..were products of Silver Latinity. 1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 487 In any given passage in a silver Latin author. 1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 487 One of the best-known authors of the silver period, Juvenal. Compounds C1. a. Objective or objective genitive: (a) With agent-nouns, as silver-chaser, silver-lover, silver-miner, etc. ΚΠ a1400 Bible (Paues) Acts xix. 24 For one, whos name was Demetrye, þat was a siluer-maker,..he gafe [etc.]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 340/1 A Syluer maker or keper, argentarius. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 242 Those sordid silver-lovers..being courtiers had a fair opportunity. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2770/4 A Silver-spinner in Bunhill-fields. 1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 713 I being a Silver-Spinster. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 153 Mr. Mansel, silver polisher, in Corbet-court. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Silver-beater, one that foliates silver. 1815 Niles' Reg. VIII. 141/2 There are..2 silver platers; 3 trunk makers [etc.]. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 731 The silver-piercer sits at the silversmiths' and jewellers' ordinary work-bench. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 77 She is alive,..and is married to a silver-chaser. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-plater, an electrotyper. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad vi. 57 To speak after the fashion of the silver miners. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1195/2 The bane of the gold and silver miner. (b) With present participles, as silver-bearing, silver-producing, silver-shaming, etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 229 Sad sighes, deepe grones, nor siluer-shedding teares. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. E3^v Sitting alone..Close by a Silver-shedding Brook. a1699 J. Beaumont Whiteness in Compl. Poems (1880) 241/1 The Silver-shaming Grace Of the Moon's unclouded Face. c1710 T. Yalden To Sir H. Mackworth xiv The Silver-shedding Beams of Orient Light. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 251 2 to 3 feet of silver-bearing quartz. 1888 Daily News 5 Apr. 5/2 If Lancashire depends for custom upon silver-using countries to this extent. 1891 Daily News 23 Feb. 5/7 The popular reaction against free coinage continues, extending even to the silver-producing States. (c) With verbal nouns or nouns of action, as silver-mining, silver-plating, silver-reduction. ΚΠ 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 25/1 The art of silver-plating was introduced at Sheffield about the middle of the last century. 1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 47 The vats used for ordinary silver-plating are about twenty-four or thirty inches deep. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It p. iv The silver-mining fever in Nevada. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining p. ix In all silver-reduction works. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 245 The silver-mining of Beaver Head County. b. Parasynthetic and instrumental, of the types silver-armed, silver-axled, silver-bearded, silver-bowed, silver-breasted, etc.; silver-bound, silver-mounted, etc.Such combinations have been very extensively used, esp. in poetry, and the number which might be formed is very great. In addition to those illustrated here, see silver-coloured adj., silver-footed adj., silver-haired adj., etc. (a) Denoting the use of the metal itself. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. D^v A hoode, & siluer-handled fan. 1637 J. Milton Comus 16 Faire silver-shafted Queene for ever chast. 1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 53 Fair silver-buskind Nymphs. 1680 London Gaz. No. 1495/4 A Case of Silver-hafted Knives. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 79 A pair of silver mounted pistols. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlviii. 327 The serjeants of the guards have silver-laced regimentals. 1813 W. Scott Let. 6 Nov. (1932) III. 372 I..delight in collecting silver-mounted pistols and ataghans. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiv. 367 Rowena opened the small silver-chased casket. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 237 To provide silver-plated handles of the very best description. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 338 There was the jewel-case, silver-clasped. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 259 [He] bids [his horse]..to dig for him a grave..with his silver-plated hoofs. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 67 Sweeter far if silver-sandalled foot Of some long-hidden God should ever tread The Nuneham meadows. 1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 18 The grandmother looked..over her silver-rimmed spectacles. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins v, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (new ed.) 393 The Judge..laid aside his silver-bowed spectacles. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 204 He would think of the cloistral silverveined prose of Newman. 1916 E. Blunden Harbingers 63 So silver-sandalled down those golden ways He triumphs. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 486 He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer... He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 258 He was filling a bolster with articles of jewellery, silver-backed brushes, hand mirrors, candlesticks, silver-topped bottles, &c. 1939 D. Cecil Young Melbourne vi. 155 She also created scandal by appearing..imperfectly disguised as a page, in a plumed hat, silver-laced jacket and tight scarlet pantaloons. 1944 W. Fortescue Mountain Madness i. 22 A wide silver-studded black leather belt. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xiii. 170 There's a white leather gift box in every cabin, fitted out with..silver-topped crystal bottles. (b) With allusion to the sound of silver. ΚΠ 1593 T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 191 Ioyfull birds..Whose siluer tuned songs might well haue moued her. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 99 My dearest wife was like this maid,..as siluer voyst. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica Poem to Rdr. sig. A2^v I strike my silver-sounded lyre. 1844 E. B. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship xxii Though sometimes she would bind me with her silver-corded speeches. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 271/2 The beautiful note of the silver-voiced bell-bird. (c) With reference to the colour or lustre of silver. ΚΠ 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7 Her silver-feathered turtle-doves. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 82 The siluer-fronted Starr That swells and shrinks the Seas. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vii. sig. F3^v Euen the siluer-bearded..cittizens haue giuen him welcomes. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 76 When silver-winged Peace againe shall Shine. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 924 The silver-eddied Peneus. a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 48 Like a calm flock of silver-fleeced sheep. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 101 A hoary oak or a silver-barked beech. 1851 J. G. Whittier in National Era 3 Jan. 106/4 Whose small waves on a silver-sanded shore Whisper of peace. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 136 A saviour of the silver-coasted isle. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 24 Lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead. 1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 112 And where's the gloom now?—silver-smitten straight, One glow and variegation! 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 2 The inrolling walls of the fog and the silver-winged breeze that disperses. 1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 370/1 Wide silver-breasted rivers flowing to a sunlit sea. 1937 Burlington Mag. May 252/2 Two bowls of Chien yao... One is of the silver-flecked variety. 1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 121 On the silver-sanded shores. 1962 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 22/2 The silver-suited astronaut. 1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 32 All manner of fabulous creatures of the deep surged and surfaced amid the molten silver-flecked arrowing lines of foaming waves. (d) In specific names of animals, birds, fishes, plants, etc. silver-cupped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring streaked1600 marbled1629 muscadine1646 agated1665 silver-cupped1688 red-top1705 tessellated1723 lineate1777 fancy1793 red-tipped1800 areolated1802 white-lipped1813 variegated1818 pennaceous1819 streak-flowered1822 limbate1826 unbroken1829 sanguine-heart1840 rivulose1843 pencilled1846 areolate1847 notate1857 sigillate1858 discolor1859 discolorous1860 fumose1866 fumous1866 tricolour1866 unnetted1869 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [adjective] > smooth or reflective shining1674 silver-cupped1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 55/2 The Spanish Silver-cupped Moly. silver-eyed adj. ΚΠ 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 252 The silver-eyed Sparus. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 431 Silver-eyed Snake... A Siberian species. 1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 366 Silver-eyed crow... Native of South America. silver-laced adj. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 876/1 Another useful race of compact form.., called the silver-laced Wyandotte. silver-pencilled adj. ΚΠ 1887 Beldon in Wright Illustr. Bk. Poultry 382 These and all other names are gradually giving way to that of Silver-pencilled Hamburghs. silver-spangled adj. ΚΠ 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 59 In the ‘silver-spangled’ variety, the only perceptible difference is, that the ground color is a silvery white. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1890) ii. xiv. 426 The Golden and Silver-spangled Polish..breeds. silver-spotted adj. ΚΠ 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 540 Silver-spotted Sciæna... Native of the Arabian seas. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 320 The Silver-spotted Tunny, Orcynus argentivittatus. silver-striped adj. ΚΠ 1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 174 Silver-striped Herring... Native of the Indian and American seas. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 78/2 The sycamore maple,..Silver-striped. silver-studded adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with silver harnessed1426 silver-headed1760 silver-studded1882 silver1898 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 45 The Silver-studded Blue (Polymmatus ægon) is common on heaths. silver-washed adj. ΚΠ 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. Argynnis Paphia, the silver-washed Fritillary. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 105 One of our handsomest butterflies—The Silver-washed Fritillary. c. With present participles, in the sense of ‘like, or with, silver’, as silver-eddying, silver-flashing, silver-flowing, etc. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa8^v The siluer sounding instruments. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B1^v The mornings siluer melting dew. View more context for this quotation 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A3 Rounded with Lycas siluer flowing streams. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 46 The Siluer-shining Sand expresseth Sulpher. a1699 J. Beaumont Psyche (1702) x. clxxiv. 150 When Eloquence's tributary streams After the Silver-thrilling Current run. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 464 Pallas..In slumber clos'd her silver-streaming eyes. 1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 3 Wanders the hoary Thames along His Silver-winding Way. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights v, in Poems 51 The central fountain's flow Fall'n silverchiming. 1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 77 Whence arise..his silver-swelling strains? 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 46 The steel..Hung silver-glittering on high. 1932 D. Gascoyne Rom. Balcony 33 And through their long-nailed fingers Glide the silver-shining minnows. 1944 W. de la Mare Coll. Rhymes & Verses 99 There silver-shining Hesper Smiles at Mars. d. Qualifying other adjectives, as silver-blue, silver bright, silver-clear, silver-golden, etc. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 210 How siluer sweet sound louers tongues in night. View more context for this quotation 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 239 Many a glitt'ring siluer-golden spang. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 315 Their Armours that march'd hence so siluer bright. View more context for this quotation 1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 5 Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Lilian 24 Silver-treble laughter trilleth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 144 A little whisper silver-clear. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 22 Where some segment silver-true Stays clear. 1914 L. Woolf Wise Virgins iv. 110 The silver-green water glided by him. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 514 Through silversilent summer air the dummy of Bloom, rolled in a mummy, rolls roteatingly. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 6 Silver-pink peach, venetian green glass of medlars and sorb-apples. 1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands xii. 242 We came to a succession of dune-chains, each of which..showed up in turn as a wavy silver-blue wall. 1959 R. Graves Coll. Poems 315 And next the silver-bright Hyperborean Queendom. 1973 J. Seabrook Loneliness 117 A quiet, rather subdued woman; smart, with silver-blue hair. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xiii. 165 The pearly capped teeth and silver-pink mouth. e. With nouns, forming an attributive comb. ΚΠ 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses iv. 38 Then by Alcandre t'Helena Divine A silver brim guilt Basket given was. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1238/4 A bright silver-hair bay Gelding. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-spoon-head, in Archery, is the Head of some sort of Arrows, so called from the resemblance they have to the knobs of some sorts of Silver-spoons. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 385 2000 couple of silver hair [rabbits]. 1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 108 Silver-stripe Pike, Esox Hepsetus. C2. a. Special combinations. silver-balli n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America guaiacum1533 guaiac1558 lignum vitae1594 sweetwood1607 green ebony1665 princewoodc1665 alligator wood1696 pimento wood1712 greenheart1719 mahoea1726 galimeta-wood1756 determa1769 bullet-wood1843 cocobolo1849 lancewood1858 silver-balli1858 yari-yari1858 Honduras rosewood1860 sabicu1866 amarant1909 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-balli, a wood obtained in Demerara from a species of Nectandra. silver band n. a brass band with silver-coloured instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1933 Radio Times 14 Apr. 126/5 The Tullis Russell Silver Band. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xxv. 228 ‘Thump! Thump! Thump!’ said the drum of the Bures Silver Band. 1976 Times 3 May 12/4 The Eastbourne silver band, in bright red jackets, played California Here I Come. silver bar n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of barrel1591 motion1605 bezel1616 fusee1622 string1638 crown wheel1646 out-case1651 watch-box1656 nuck1664 watchwork1667 balance-wheel1669 box1675 dial wheel1675 counter-potence1678 pendulum-balance1680 watch-case1681 pillar1684 contrate teeth1696 pinion of report1696 watch-hook1698 bob-balance1701 half-cock1701 potence1704 verge1704 pad1705 movable1709 jewel1711 pendant1721 crystal1722 watch-key1723 pendulum spring1728 lock spring1741 watch-glass1742 watch-spring1761 all-or-nothing piece1764 watch hand1764 cylinder1765 cannon?1780 cannon1802 stackfreed1819 pillar plate1821 little hand1829 hair-spring1830 lunette1832 all-or-nothing1843 locking1851 slag1857 staff1860 case spring1866 stem1866 balance-cock1874 watch-dial1875 balance-spring1881 balance-staff1881 Breguet spring1881 overcoil1881 surprise-piece1881 brass edge1884 button turn1884 fourth wheel1884 fusee-sink1884 pair-case1884 silver bar1884 silver piece1884 slang1884 top plate1884 karrusel1893 watch-face1893 watch bracelet1896 bar-movement1903 jewel pivot1907 jewel bearing1954 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 241 Silver Bar, [or] Silver Piece, the graduated arc at the extremity of a watch regulator when it is made of silver. silver bath n. a solution, esp. of silver nitrate, used for sensitizing photographic plates and printing paper; a dish to contain this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer emulsion1840 collodion1851 sensitizer1854 nitrate bath1858 collodio-bromide1864 organifier1873 silver bath1878 bromide emulsion1885 silver1891 sensibilizer1900 panchromatic1906 nuclear emulsion1949 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 61 The following formula for the silver~bath solution is a standard one. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 38 The silver bath..standing in the sun,..that it may do its dark work the better. silver-beggar n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1841 Exposure of Impositions practised by Vagrants 4 I shall begin with those vagrants who, generally, obtain the most, and are considered of the first class, and by some termed ‘Silver Beggars’, but by travellers they are called ‘Lurkers’. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 230 Silver-beggar or Lurker, a vagabond who travels through the country with ‘briefs’ containing false statements of losses by fire, shipwrecks, accidents, &c. silver-black adj. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > argentite group > silver sulphide silver-black1805 argentite1837 argyrite1868 argyrose1868 1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 152 Silver-black... Colour bluish-black, which inclines a little to dark lead-grey. 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 457/2 Silver Black, an earthy form of Silver Glance..found in several Saxon and Hungarian mines. silver blond adj. (also silver blonde) of hair: of a very light, silvery colour, esp. as the result of bleaching (cf. platinum blonde n. and adj.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > coloured hennaed1853 blondine1867 blondined1890 peroxided1904 blue-rinsed1936 silver blond1951 blue rinse1959 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle i. 29 Silver-blond hair, silver-grey eyes. 1959 M. Summerton Small Wilderness i. 8 The silver-blonde hair that curved..to her shoulders. 1974 D. Francis Knock Down iii. 37 She had silver shoes and silver-blonde hair. † silver bridal n. Obsolete = silver-marriage n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > at which guests contribute money penny-bridal1599 silver bridal1624 penny wedding1672 silver-marriage1825 penny wedder1866 silvern wedding1880 1624 Rec. Presbytery of Fordyce (MS.) Abuses at Sylver brydells. silver bronze n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > miscellaneous printers' equipment > [noun] > powder for silver printing silver bronze1888 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 125 Silver bronze, a metallic powder used for silver printing. c1930 Catal. Delta Metal Co. Ltd. (ed. 11) 20 ‘Delta’ Bronze No. 11 (Silver Bronze) is a high-class alloy of a silver-white colour; it is malleable and takes a beautiful polish, and is specially suitable..for all purposes where a strong non-rusting material of a silver colour is required. † silver caustic n. Obsolete lunar caustic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [noun] > mineral-derived mercury sublimate1562 infernal stone1706 silver caustic1753 common or lunar caustic1800 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Silver This powder applied to ulcers, acts in the manner of the lapis infernalis, or silver-caustic. silver collection n. a collection of ‘silver’ coins (or of money of no denomination lower than these) made at a meeting, etc. ΚΠ 1957 B. Hulme Beaman & S. G. Hulme Beaman Ernest the Brave 8 ‘I was referring to the pence expected as a result of this disgraceful exhibition!’ ‘Oh, Mr. Growser, sir,’ Larry interrupted. ‘This is supposed to be a silver collection.’ 1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xxii. 145 Imagine, Katz, no charge. Not even a silver collection. silver cord n. (a) used in the silver cord is loosed and variants (in allusion to Ecclesiastes xii. 6) to signify the dissolution of life at death; (b) a symbol of excessive devotion between mother and child. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > symbol of excessive mother-child devotion silver cord1911 the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective] > excessive mother-child devotion silver cord1911 1911 J. A. Thomson Introd. Sci. vi. 177 If we can use such a word, the silver cord of the bundle of life is loosed, and earth returns to earth. The microbes of decay break down the dead, and there is a return to air and water and salts. 1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night i. xiii. 76 ‘The silver cord is cut and the golden bowl is broken and all that, but an old romantic like me can't do anything about it.’ ‘I'm romantic too.’ They came out of the neat restored trench, and faced a memorial to the Newfoundland dead. 1942 P. Wylie Generation of Vipers xi. 185 Our land, subjectively mapped, would have more silver cords and apron strings crisscrossing it than railroads and telephone wires. 1959 J. Braine Vodi xxi. 232 Her mother, as usual, had won. And, what was hardest to forgive, had won fairly; she wasn't the Silver Cord type, she'd never been possessive. 1973 G. M. Brown Magnus vii. 156 Magnus Erlendson would live out his life, until such time as the silver cord was loosed, and the golden bowl broken, and the pitcher broken at the fountain. silver doctor n. an artificial fishing fly having a body of tinsel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 40/2 The silver doctor, also a very great favourite. Tag, silver tinsel; tail, a topping; but, a turn of red crewel; body of silver tinsel entirely; [etc.]. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 1435 Salmon Flies... Silver Doctor. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 447/1 In tidal pools there are few better flies than a silver-doctor tied exceedingly small. 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31 Your fairy shrimp, just as pretty..as any Jock Scott or Silver Doctor. † silver-eyed adj. Obsolete wall-eyed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of eye wall-eyeda1400 wolden-eiȝeda1400 ringle-eyed1586 feather-eyeda1640 silver-eyed1695 cyclopian1839 aphakic1889 heterochromic1911 1695 London Gaz. No. 3086/4 A dark Iron grey Mare,..Silver Eyed. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3857/4 A small black Gelding about 13 hands... Wall or Silver-Ey'd. silver-fawn adj. and n. (a) adj. a fanciers' term denoting fur of a fawn colour tipped with silver; (b) n. an animal having such fur. ΚΠ 1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity Similarly the chocolate colour when diluted gives what fanciers call ‘silver-fawn’. 1914 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 173 Five matings between silver-fawns gave 28 silver-fawn young. silver-feast n. = silver wedding n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > anniversary > specific silver-feast1796 silver wedding1849 golden wedding1850 wooden wedding1870 diamond wedding1872 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 216 The celebration of what he called his Silver-feast, being the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage. 1806 A. L. Barbauld Let. 7 Jan. in Wks. (1825) II. 125 We should have had great pleasure in keeping with you your silver feast, as the Germans call it when a couple have lived happily a quarter of a century together. silver-fizz n. an effervescing drink based on gin and egg white (cf. fizz n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > gin cocktail gin sling1790 thunder and lightning1802 Tom Collins1876 Martini1884 silver-fizz1901 pahit1902 pink gin1903 Clover Club1925 gimlet1928 gin and it1929 pink lady1929 Alexander1930 Gibson1930 silver bullet1930 Singapore sling1930 White Lady1930 pink1942 negroni1947 pinkers1961 dirty martini1991 1901 O. Wister Philos. 4 in Stories of Colleges 68 It must have been that extra silver-fizz you took before dinner. 1977 E. Ambler Send no More Roses vi. 121 He was drinking a silver-fizz, a long drink made of gin and egg-whites. † silver-foam n. Obsolete litharge. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > general formula AO > litharge litharge1322 litharge of goldc1400 litharge of silverc1400 spumec1400 foam of lead1538 silver-foam1565 plumbago1617 silver-glet1668 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > litharge litharge1322 litharge of goldc1400 litharge of silverc1400 spumec1400 spume of argenta1533 foam of lead1538 silver-foam1565 plumbago1617 silver-glet1668 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Argyritis, siluer fome. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Litharge d'argent, siluer foame. silver-fork n. used attributively to designate a school of novelists about 1830 distinguished by an affectation of gentility; also applied to later novelists displaying similar characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement young-ladyfied1616 genteel1631 genteea1680 fal-lal1747 shabby-genteel1754 fine-ladylike1755 fine-ladyish1777 ladyish1830 silver-fork1831 haw-haw1841 lardy-dardy1861 la-di-dac1883 refained1925 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > specific novelists silver-fork1831 1827 Examiner 18 Nov. 722/2 A writer of this accomplished stamp..also informs you that the quality eat fish with silver forks.] 1831 Times 15 Dec. 5/3 A single chapter of any one of them is worth more than the whole bundle of those contemptible productions of the silver-fork school, which are called ‘fashionable novels’. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 59/1 A man who would die a martyr to his faith in the silver-fork school of manners and morals. 1884 J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. 154 It had the culture of the silver-fork school without their affectation. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Oct. 1092/5 The suspicion grows that this is a new-style ‘silver fork’ novel, with merchant bankers taking the place of noble dukes. silver glass n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > silver ore > types of glass-ore1683 goose-silver-ore1776 silver glass1797 silver-glance1805 goose-dung-ore1858 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > cut or relief-decorated glass silver glass1797 cut glass1800 mousseline1862 cameo glass1879 prunt1902 verre églomisé1907 reticello1926 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 62/2 Some of the rich silver ores are easily tried: for instance, minera argenti vitrea,..silver-glass, which consists only of silver and sulphur. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 813/1 Silver Glass, an ornamental ground and cut glass. This glass can be used in the place of plaster, marble floors, or wood inlaid work. † silver-glet n. Obsolete litharge. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > general formula AO > litharge litharge1322 litharge of goldc1400 litharge of silverc1400 spumec1400 foam of lead1538 silver-foam1565 plumbago1617 silver-glet1668 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > litharge litharge1322 litharge of goldc1400 litharge of silverc1400 spumec1400 spume of argenta1533 foam of lead1538 silver-foam1565 plumbago1617 silver-glet1668 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 306 Lithargyros, Litharge, or Silver~glet. silver handshake n. a gratuity given on retirement or as compensation for dismissal from one's occupation (of less value than a golden handshake). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for termination of employment pay-off1935 severance pay1953 silver handshake1958 golden handshake1959 lumpers1960 severance1965 1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 84 Flash Willy is just about to go back to London, pick up his silver handshake, his sacking money, and get himself a corner in the ‘I will photograph your child in your home’ lark. 1979 C. Dexter Service of All Dead ii. 17 A little silver handshake, a little farewell party. † silver hell n. slang Obsolete a low-class gambling saloon (cf. hell n. 8) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 1835 T. Power Jrnl. 13 Jan. in Impressions of Amer. (1836) II. 196 With here and there a couple of the same sort of gemman to be met with about the silver hells of London. 1843 W. T. Moncrieff Scamps of London i. i. 5 in Sel. Dram. Wks. (1851) I He's the principal partner in all the silver hells at the west end. † silver-hider n. Obsolete a miser. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth chinch?a1300 wretch1303 chincher1333 muckererc1390 mokerarda1400 muglard1440 gatherer?a1513 hoarder?a1513 warner1513 hardhead1519 snudge1545 cob1548 snidge1548 muckmonger1566 mucker1567 miser?1577 scrape-penny1584 money-miser1586 gromwell-gainer1588 muckscrape1589 muckworm1598 scrib1600 muckraker1601 morkin-gnoff1602 scrape-scall1602 incubo1607 accumulator1611 gripe-money1611 scrape-good1611 silver-hider1611 gripe1621 scrapeling1629 clutch1630 scrape-pelfa1640 volpone1672 spare-penny1707 save-all1729 bagger1740 spare-thrift1803 money-codger1818 hunger-rot1828 muckrake1850 muckthrift1852 gripe-penny1860 hugger-mugger1862 Scrooge1940 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Serargent,..a scrape-good, penny-father, siluer-hider, money-hoorder. silver jubilee n. see jubilee n. 3a. Silver Lady n. an epithet applied to Miss Elizabeth Baxter (d. 1972), philanthropist, from her custom of giving silver coins to the down-and-outs of the Embankment in London, used attributively to describe a charitable organization (and its appurtenances) which distributes food and hot drinks to vagrants. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [adjective] > relating to charity > specific charity Silver Lady1961 1961 Ann. Charities Reg. & Digest 208/2 Silver Lady Fund. Mobile café out on Embankment serving hot tea and food free to the needy. Miss Betty Baxter.., E.C.4. 1978 C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road xv. 171 The Silver Lady van arrived and mugs of tea and meat pies were distributed. silver-lip n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1901 Knowledge Sept. 209/1 The large Austro-Malayan oyster, the valuable ‘silver-lip’ and ‘gold-lip’ of commerce. silver lustre n. a composition used for silvering potter's ware. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze > for ceramics or pottery > types of steel lustre1829 moonlight lustre1837 stone-oil1838 silver lustre1845 porcelain enamel1852 marzacotto1873 overglaze1880 under-glaze1882 coperta1885 tiger's-eye1893 tin-glaze1897 hare's fur1899 lead-glaze1899 tin-enamel1900 rouge flambé1902 Sunderland lustre1903 transmutation glaze1904 Mohammedan blue1905 peach bloom1937 sang-de-bœuf1957 lead-lustre- 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 468/2 The silver lustre is differently prepared. † silver-marriage n. (in Sc. form siller marriage) Obsolete a marriage at which each guest contributed a money-offering. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > at which guests contribute money penny-bridal1599 silver bridal1624 penny wedding1672 silver-marriage1825 penny wedder1866 silvern wedding1880 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Siller Siller-Marriage, the same with Penny-Brydal. a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 181 Siller marriages fifty years syne war in vogue. silver medal n. a medal made of or resembling silver, awarded as the second prize in a contest, esp. in the Olympic Games. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes garland?a1513 plate1639 cupc1640 dog plate1686 gold medal1694 gold cup1718 sweepstake1773 trophy1822 bronze medal1852 shield1868 statuette1875 pot1885 team honours1895 letter1897 silver medal1908 school colour1913 gold1945 bronze1960 silver1960 Fed Cup1965 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > decoration > medal > specific gold medal1694 Albert medal1850 bronze medal1852 silver medal1908 B.E.M.1941 gold1945 1908 T. A. Cook Olympic Games i. 16 For all these gold, silver, and bronze prize medals have been allotted. 1958 Times 25 Aug. 4/1 The British sprint relay teams won their silver medals through immaculate baton changing. 1976 All about Games (Com. Org. des Jeux Olympiques) 24 Canada's 74 athletes won one silver medal. silver medallist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc. runner-up1859 silver medallist1910 placer1942 vice-champion1981 1910 N.E.D. at Silver Silver medallist. 1976 Daily Tel. 20 July 1/7 The cheating by Boris Onischenko, silver medallist at the Mexico City and Munich Olympics. silver oar n. (see quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > insignia of civil court afloat silver oar1772 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 i. 66 Captain Ferguson..was carried from Newgate, the Marshal of the Admiralty, the officer carrying the silver oar, &c., attending. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 626 Silver-oar, one of the badges of the civil court afloat, conferring the power to arrest for debt if not less than £20. Silver Office n. an office formerly attached to the Court of Common Pleas. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > offices attached to courts > to Court of Common Pleas Silver Office1708 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) 573 Clerk of the Queen's Silver-Office. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 312/1 The king's Silver Office books are the chief indexes to the fines. Thesaurus » Categories » silver piece n. (see the quotation for silver bar). † silver-pill n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicine prepared from mercury mercury1617 blue pill1670 calomel1676 mercurial1676 silver-pill1753 blue mass1823 panacea of mercury1823 grey powder1842 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > pill > specific type of pill aggregative1588 Matthew's pill1663 blue pill1670 silver-pill1753 multi1984 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Silver-pill, a chemical preparation of silver, formerly highly commended. silver-point n. (a) the process of making a drawing with a silver pencil on specially prepared paper; a drawing made in this way; (b) the freezing point of silver under normal atmospheric pressure (about 962°C), as a thermometric fixed point. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs freezing-point1748 boiling-point1773 absolute zero1798 firing point1807 melting temperature1827 ice point1832 dew-point1833 melting point1838 neutral temperature1854 fusing point or temperature1860 welding point1868 flashing-point1878 flashpoint1878 mp1880 ignition temperature1881 silver-point1882 fire point1884 ignition point1887 neutral point1892 smoking point1915 smoking temperature1915 pour point1922 smoke point1933 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > in specific medium stylography1840 silver-point1882 pastelling1899 1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts xii. 97 Silver-point, as practised by the best masters. 1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 219 Marvellously artistic etchings and ‘silver-points’. 1928 Bureau of Standards Jrnl. Res. (U.S.) 1 637 The constants a, b, and c are to be determined by calibration at the freezing point of antimony, and at the silver and gold points. 1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) v. iii. 41/1 In the neighbourhood of 1000°C new determinants of the silver point and gold point have been made in recent years. silver-point v. [as a back-formation] (transitive) to cause to appear coloured or tinged in the manner of a silver-point drawing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > specific silver-point1976 1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 46 A bright half moon was..silverpointing the slates and making pendant shadows beneath the..eaves. silver-pointed adj. coloured or tinged in the manner of a silver-point drawing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > marked by specific colour ambery?1771 foxy1783 silver-pointed1913 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. xx. 483 They moved to Geneva, whose silverpointed beauty for a while deceived them. 1930 R. Campbell Poems 1 Two sisters... Whose fingers glint with silver~pointed nails. silver polish n. a polish used for cleaning and brightening silver. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > polish > types of pumice1422 emery1481 foam of copperas1538 pumex1589 emery-stone1610 smiris1610 putty1663 rottenstone1677 tutty1731 French rouge?1745 rotstone1767 plate powder1786 emery-powder18.. rouge1808 waxing1825 black lead1830 tin-putty1839 red stuff1844 stove-polish1858 crocusa1861 crocus-powder1873 furniture cream1873 grit-emery1884 silver polish1895 Ronuk1896 Brasso1905 floor polish1907 lavender cream1926 lavender polish1961 lavender wax1970 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 193 Thorn's Silver Polish, Liquid Form, 15c. per Bottle. 1925 Morris Owner's Man. 34 The Radiator Casing..should be polished frequently, using a good brand of metal or silver polish. 1974 ‘D. Fletcher’ Lovable Man i. 37 He memorised the exact position of the silver polish and..began to polish the lighter. Thesaurus » Categories » silver-powder n. a preparation of bismuth, tin, and mercury, used by japanners, etc. (Knight, 1875). silver print n. a photograph produced by silver-printing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process tithonograph1842 platinotype1844 daguerreotype1849 crystallotype1852 catalysotype1853 black print1855 sun print1855 blueprint1857 ferrotype1857 tin-type1864 pyro-photograph1869 opalotype1873 gelatine picture1875 hellenotype1875 panotype1875 silver print1878 autophotograph1880 platinum print1881 bromide print1885 solar1889 solar print1889 shadowgraph1896 skiagraph1896 rotograph1899 autochrome1902 rayogram1932 reduction print1933 photogram1934 blow-up1945 Polaroid1953 opaque1959 bromide1967 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 138 The colour of the silver print when appearing through this other metal may give a pleasing tint. 1901 Athenæum 12 Oct. 497/1 The views here given..cannot compare in sharpness with the unfortunately perishable silver prints. silver-printing n. (a) the process of producing a photograph on paper sensitized with a silver salt; (b) printing in which the letters, etc., have a silver colour. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > silver-printing silver-printing1878 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of sun painting1839 sun-printing1853 surface process1865 contact printing1876 silver-printing1878 pigment printing1879 bromide printing1885 printing out1889 screen process1890 gaslight printing1899 projection printing1923 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 28 In determining the fixing agent to employ in silver printing, this point has to be taken into consideration. 1888Silver printing [see silver bronze n.]. † silver quinsy n. Obsolete = silver sickness n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe silverya1387 silver sickness1548 silver squinsy1611 silver quinsy1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Argentangia The Silver-Quinsey. 1843 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. Ἀργυράγχη, the silver-quinsy, which Demosthenes was said to have [etc.]. silver rain n. (see rain n.¹ 5). silver ring n. Horse Racing (see quot. 1921) (cf. Tattersall n. 1b); also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > betting place wager-hall1691 wagering-post1696 wager-office1723 betting-post1771 ring1775 betting room1793 betting ring1822 Tattersall1836 betting office1852 betting shop1852 betting-house1853 pool room1861 list shop1875 list house1902 tote-shop1906 silver ring1921 bookmaker1923 bookie1936 1921 E. Wallace Law Four Just Men ix. 261 I found a poor little bookmaker in the silver ring—the silver ring is the enclosure where smaller bets are made in Tattersall's reservation. 1926 J. Masefield Odtaa xv. 257 A vile, taunting, silver-ring tick. 1928 J. H. Thomas in Hansard's Parl. Deb. 220 500 If there are these advantages, it would give them to the silver ring, to Tattersall's, and to others. 1928 J. H. Thomas in Hansard's Parl. Deb. 220 501 When the totalisator is in operation, you will have the totalisator for the silver ring and for Tattersall's. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xx. 306 She is the daughter of a retired Silver Ring bookie. 1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xvii. 227 Sandro was in Tatt's... He could also go down the social and financial scale into the Silver Ring and the cheapest enclosures. silver sand n. a fine white sand used in horticulture, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > artificial soil or compost > fine white sand silver sand1851 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers marl1280 pomacec1450 cod's head1545 buck-ashes1563 bucking-ashes1577 guano1604 greaves1614 rape cake1634 muck1660 wool-nipping1669 willow-earth1683 green dressing1732 bone flour1758 bone powder1758 poudrette1764 bone dust1771 green manure1785 fish-manure1788 wassal1797 lime-rubbish1805 Bude sand1808 bone1813 cancerine1840 inch-bones1846 bonemeal1849 silver sand1851 fish guano1857 food1857 terramare1866 kainite1868 fish-flour1879 soil1879 fish-scrap1881 gas lime1882 bean cake1887 inoculant1916 1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Aug. 135 I put them [sc. seeds] into a wood or paper box,..with a little dry silver sand. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 164 How are you off for silver-sand, pasture-loam? silver screen n. a cinematographic projection screen covered with metallic paint to produce a highly reflective silver-coloured surface; usually transferred, the cinema generically, considered as a medium for such film projection. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema cinematograph1896 animation1897 cinema1908 movies1909 movie screen1912 pic1913 big screen1914 film1915 motion pictures1915 picture1915 screen1915 seventh art1921 celluloid1922 silver screen1924 flick1926 flickers1927 pix1932 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen scrim1891 cinema screen1912 movie screen1912 widescreen1920 silver screen1924 bead screen1934 screen1952 split screen1953 pinscreen1959 1921 ‘M. Pickford’ Let. in V. Burnett Romantick Lady (1927) xxxii. 398 It is not always easy to take a classic like ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ and place it on the cold, silver screen.] 1924 Amer. Hebrew 22 Feb. 439 (heading) ‘Shooting’ news for the silver screen; Pathe film editor who brings home to millions timely pictures of world events. 1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures i. 19 Somehow there had crept into this new field of endeavour the romance of the silver screen. 1931 in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures 2 The intent of the magic was merely to bring the two lovers, sound and silver screen, together. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 636/4 Not a night passes without one aspect or another of the far western frontier holding children from play and old men from the chimney corner on the silver screen or on ‘the Telly’. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xii. 256 Cameron Clarke objected to Tunipah and the god of the silver screen had spoken. silver service n. (see quot. 1970). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > types of service table service1620 room service1916 waitressing1936 waitress service1960 silver service1970 1970 Drive Spring 43/1 Silver service means that your plate is put before you empty and the various parts of your dish are served separately from silver. 1976 Evening Standard 14 June 25/3 (advt.) Commis de rang for our high class Prince's Room Restaurant—must have silver service experience. Silver Shirts n. U.S. the name applied to the Silver Legion, an American fascist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1940 (cf. Blackshirt n.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > paramilitary groups spec. > [noun] U.V.F.1913 squadra1922 Sturmabteilung1923 steel helmet1925 Schutzbund1927 new guard1932 Silver Shirts1934 Stern gang1944 Umkhonto we Sizwe1961 nahal1963 MK1964 Provisional I.R.A.1970 Black September1971 Red Brigade1971 Black Septembrist1972 U.D.A.1972 Symbionese Liberation Army1973 U.F.F.1973 Amal1976 death squad1976 INLA1979 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies moral majority1815 patron1870 Tammany tiger1871 grange1875 Silver Shirts1934 Bund1939 SDS1961 Weather Underground1972 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Aug. 6/2 A California newspaper has published the exciting news that the Silver Shirts of America plan to put down the Communists and then take over control of the American Government. 1959 W. Faulkner Mansion 303 When the Silver Shirts appeared, Clarence was one of the first in Mississippi to join it. † silver-sick adj. Obsolete avaricious. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions greedya1000 overgreedyOE avarous1303 covetous1340 concupiscible1398 avaricious1474 silver-sick?a1500 lucrous1511 having1528 lucrative1549 concupiscentious1555 holding1569 griping?1573 concupiscential1577 over-havinga1600 gripulous1614 ingordigious1637 concupitive1651 appropriative1655 lucripetous1675 coveting1699 grasping1747 concupiscenta1834 acquisitive1846 pleonectic1858 big-eye1868 wanting1876 possessive1889 grabby1910 gold-digging1925 territorial1966 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2036 in Poems (1981) 78 Ȝe ar siluer-seik, I wait richt weill. † silver sickness n. Obsolete (see quot. 1706 and cf. silver quinsy n.). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe silverya1387 silver sickness1548 silver squinsy1611 silver quinsy1706 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Argentagina, the syluer sycknesse. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-sickness, or Silver-squincy, is when an Advocate or pleading Lawyer, being brib'd by the other Party, feigns himself sick, or not able to speak. silver-side n. the upper and choicer part of a round of beef. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts tild1342 ox foota1398 oxtaila1425 neat's foot?c1450 beef-flick1462 sticking piece1469 ox-tonguea1475 aitch-bone1486 fore-crop?1523 sirloin1525 mouse-piece1530 ox-cheek1592 neat's tongue1600 clod1601 sticking place1601 skink1631 neck beef1640 round1660 ox-heart1677 runner1688 sticking draught1688 brisket-beef1697 griskin1699 sey1719 chuck1723 shin1736 gravy beef1747 baron of beef1755 prime rib1759 rump and dozen1778 mouse buttock1818 slifta1825 nine holes1825 spauld-piece1828 trembling-piece1833 shoulder-lyar1844 butt1845 plate1854 plate-rand1854 undercut1859 silver-side1861 bed1864 wing rib1883 roll1884 strip-loin1884 hind1892 topside1896 rib-eye1926 buttock meat1966 onglet1982 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery viii. 206 The natural division of the meat will show where the silver-side of the round is to be separated from the upper, or tongue side.] 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xiii. 283 As a whole round of beef..is too large for small families..we here give the recipe for dressing a portion of the silver side of the round. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan i. vi Such a beautiful bit of beef too, silverside. 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) iii I can milk a cow, and pot a vine, and bed down a pony, and salt a silver-side. silver-skin n. (a) a variety of potato; (b) an inner skin on coffee-beans. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > coffee bean or plant > [noun] > coffee bean > husk or skin parchment1682 silver-skin1797 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato potato1629 Rough Red1771 sprout1771 London lady1780 russet1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 silver-skin1797 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 lumper1840 blue1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 mangel-wurzel potato1875 snowflake1882 snowdrop1900 pomato1905 Idaho1911 Majestic1917 red1926 Pentland1959 1797 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset (new ed.) 116 The sorts [of potato] cultivated are the kidney,..and silver skin. 1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 528/1 The beans [of coffee are] put through a winnower, which takes off a delicate skin still remaining, called the ‘silver-skin’. silver solder n. a solder partly composed of silver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > solder > types of gold solder1580 soft solder1594 spelter solder1671 silver solder1682 spelter1815 silver-soldering1843 pewter solder1850 Wood1860 strap solder1885 tinman's solder1937 1682 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech.: 2nd Pt. 18 And therefore silver-solder could not be used in cementing the parts, but onely lead-solder. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 434 The hard solders most commonly used are the spelter solders, and silver solders. silver-solder v. see silver solder n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > solder > with specific technique or material braze1678 plumba1722 soft-solder1769 spelter1861 tin1873 silver-solder1889 to blow on1893 1889 P. N. Hasluck Model Engineer's Handybk. 87 The flanges can be made separately, and either brazed or silver-soldered on ends of tube. silver-soldering n. see silver solder n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > solder > types of gold solder1580 soft solder1594 spelter solder1671 silver solder1682 spelter1815 silver-soldering1843 pewter solder1850 Wood1860 strap solder1885 tinman's solder1937 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 443 The practice of silver-soldering is essentially the same as brazing. † silver-spat n. Obsolete a silver-bearing rock. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > mineral or chemical composition > [noun] > rock containing specific mineral alum rockc1637 silver-spat1668 salt-rock1670 tin-spar1681 garnet-rock1794 mimophyre1824 crystalline1856 haüynophyr1865 minette1866 phosphate rock1869 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 301 Saxa Metallaria, Silver-Spat. silver-spoonism n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement airs and graces1697 fine-ladyism1799 gentility1821 shabby-gentility1829 gentishness1847 genteelism1849 silver-spoonism1859 posh1915 refainment1933 1859 Habits Good Society 50 Silver-spoonism is, after all, vulgarity; it is an assumption of delicacy superior to the majority. † silver squinsy n. Obsolete = silver sickness n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe silverya1387 silver sickness1548 silver squinsy1611 silver quinsy1706 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Argentangine, the siluer Squinzie, a disease wherwith many besides Demosthenes..haue beene troubled. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1278 The silver-squincy, when a pleader being bribed by the other side, feigns himself sick, and not able to speak. Silver Star n. a decoration for gallantry awarded to members of the U.S. Army and Navy (see quot. 1941); also Silver Star medal. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders Order of St Michael1530 Legion of Honour1802 clasp1813 Iron Cross1813 medal1813 star1844 Victoria Cross1856 V.C.1859 Medal of Honour1861 bar1864 yellow jacket1864 V.D.1901 Croix de Guerre1915 Military Cross1915 C.G.M.1916 Military Medal1916 pip1917 M.M.1918 purple heart1918 Maconochie Cross1919 Maconochie Medal1919 wound-stripe1919 T.D.1924 rooty gong1925 Silver Star1932 Ritterkreuz1940 Africa Star1943 ruptured duck1945 Spam medal1945 screaming eagle1946 1932 U.S. Army Regulations 8 Aug. No. 600 –45 p. 1 The authorized decorations awarded by the United States are: a. Awarded by the War Department... (4) Silver Star. 1932 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. ii. 2/5 Captain Herbert G. Rosboro..received the Silver Star medal today from the War Department for gallantry in action in October, 1918. 1941 J. McDowell Morgan Military Medals & Insignia of U.S. 76 The Silver Star was established..on July 9, 1918. This originally was a unique badge of honor, being a small silver star, 3/16-inch in diameter, designed to be worn on the ribbon of a campaign medal to indicate..‘a citation for gallantry in action’... On August 8, 1932, a distinct medal, known as the Silver Star Decoration, was established as a reward to those persons previously cited in orders for gallantry in action. 1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 Aug. (1969) 185 The hyperscientific climax of this hero (a prominent killer, holder of Silver Stars & Clusters & Purple Hearts galore)'s experience. 1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam vii. 153 You've been awarded the Silver Star for your action at Dak To. 1982 H. Lieberman Late Call lxiii. 308 I'm a veteran with a silver star and a purple heart. silver state n. U.S. a state producing silver, or advocating free coinage of silver; spec. (with capital initials) Nevada or, less frequently, Colorado. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado Washoe1856 silver state1866 Sagebrush State1893 1866 Eastern Slope (Washoe, Nevada) 15 Sept. 4/1 The Silver State struck it rich when they elected H. G. Blasdel to the Gubernatorial chair. 1871 Harper's Mag. Oct. 799/1 In our early days in the Silver State females were rarely to be seen in the frontier mining camps. 1885 Weekly New Mexican Rev. 8 Jan. 4/2 All the silver states and territories [should] organize to resist the effort which the single standard advocates are making in congress to suspend the coinage of silver. 1946 Trail & Timberline May 74/1 Colorado miners had been looking for gold but silver became of such importance that when the Territory became a state in 1876, it was known as the Silver State and Georgetown was called the Silver Queen. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 10- c/2 It was a bluish-gray ore—silver—and Nevada is now appropriately nicknamed ‘The Silver State’. silver steel n. a fine steel containing a small amount of silver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > alloy steels silver steel1831 Invar1902 high-speed steel1903 stalloy1906 Nitralloy1928 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 248 Silver steel, having the advantage of euphony.., becomes a popular denomination in the market. silver-stick n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > lifeguard officer silver-stick1882 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Silver-stick, the name given to a field-officer of the Life Guards when on palace duty. † silver stone n. Obsolete a variety of granite. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > granite > varieties of moorstone1461 silver stone1758 granitell1794 granitoid1794 rapakivi1794 ophthalmite1811 protogine1823 pegmatite1824 potash-granite1845 beresite1849 granitite1875 greisen1878 trowlesworthite1884 microgranite1888 charnockite1893 alaskite1900 Dartmoor granite1904 plagiogranite1959 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 100 The Silver Stone..is of great lustre in the microscope, every other granite placed by its side looking flat and tame. silver streak n. the English Channel; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > English Channel South SeaOE mid-channel1518 sleeve1574 the Channel1588 silver streak1879 1879 Evening Standard 11 Nov. The answer of the citizens of London to the ‘silver-streak’ politicians. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge v The silver streak, on the other side of which is dear England. silver string n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > types of wirea1387 false string1597 unison1603 unison string1633 drone1793 music wire1823 silver string1876 sympathetic strings1888 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 397/2 Silver strings, the covered strings used on violins, tenors, violoncellos, guitars, &c. silver table n. (a) a table made of or plated with silver; (b) a table used for the display of silverware, frequently with raised edges (and a glass lid). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > display table silver tablec1792 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables dormant tablec1405 set board1512 chair-table1558 oyster table1559 brushing-table1575 stand board1580 table-chair1671 reading table1749 worktable1762 centre table1775 pier table1778 loo-table1789 screen table1793 social table1793 octoped1822 claw-table1832 bench table1838 mould1842 end table1851 pedestal table1858 picnic table1866 examining table1877 silver table1897 changing table1917 rent table1919 capstan table1927 conference table1928 tricoteuse1960 Parsons1962 overflow table1973 butcher's block1976 c1792 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) iii. xii. 279 Here's a silver table and stands and glass frame. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 I should probably catch hold of..the things off my silver-table. 1926 A. Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd iv. 33 What..is called a silver table, the lid of which lifts, and through the glass of which you can see the contents. 1975 Country Life 10 Apr. (Suppl.) 48 j/1 (caption) A really fine Chippendale period silver table of superb quality. silver-tail n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > having good social position goodOE conditioned1632 visitable1765 swell1810 well-placed1814 silver-tail1898 quite1907 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > toff or swell nob1676 swell1786 toff1851 silver-tail1898 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 419 Silver-tail, a bush term for a ‘swell’; a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut. 1908 E. G. Murphy Jarrahland Jingles 116 And when they're playing billiards in their flannel tennis suits, We feel like heaving something at these silvertail galoots. 1947 G. Casey Wits are Out ix. 125 ‘Mr Fleming doesn't build for basic-wage earners,’ Bill said nastily. ‘He hangs around waiting his chance to build for the silvertails.’ 1978 Listener 9 Feb. 163/3 Mr Whitlam's enemies in his own Labor Party have called him a ‘silvertail’, meaning a social climber. 1979 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 11 Feb. 16/1 The Governor-General was, in the Premier's opinion, a super silvertail. silver-tailed adj. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] aristocratic1596 select1602 qualified1604 patrician?1614 classical1629 aristocratical1742 ruffle-shirted1805 connected1817 thoroughbred1821 upper1825 eupatrid1833 optimate1846 classy1870 silver-tailed1890 upper-bracket1945 upscale1966 1890 A. J. Vogan Black Police 116 Those upper circles..termed in Australian parlance ‘silver-tailed’, in distinction to the ‘copper~tailed’ democratic classes. 1902 Bladud 19 Feb. 14/2 During the Peninsular War the 61st were the ‘Silvertailed Dandies’, owing to the unusual amount of silver on the tails of the officers' coatees. silver tea n. North American a tea party at which the guests make contributions (typically, of ‘silver’ coin) to charity. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party school feast1708 tea1738 tea-treatc1748 tea-visit1765 tea-party1778 tea-drinking1781 thé1788 tea junketing1820 tea-night1823 tea-shine1838 tea-fight1849 tea soirée1850 muffin-worry1859 kettledrum1861 muffin-fight1876 pink tea1883 bun-worry1889 train tea1895 tea-meeting1897 bun-struggle1899 American tea1915 silver tea1921 bunfight1928 society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party tea1738 tea-visit1765 tea-party1778 tea-drinking1781 thé1788 tea junketing1820 tea-night1823 cookie shine1830 tea-shine1838 tea-fight1849 tea soirée1850 muffin-worry1859 muffin-fight1876 coffee-party1886 kaffeeklatsch1888 bun-worry1889 train tea1895 tea-meeting1897 bun-struggle1899 silver tea1921 bunfight1928 klatsch1953 coffee morning1962 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > charitable actions > tea party silver tea1921 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Mar. 9/4 A silver tea will be held at the home of Mrs. H. Lloyd-Young..on Friday afternoon. silver thaw n. the phenomenon of rain freezing as it falls and forming a glassy coating on the ground, trees, etc.; (see also quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > fall of frost silver thaw1770 verglas1808 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 22 Dec. (1792) I. 73 There was a silver thaw in the morning, and it rained freely: very mild weather all the rest of the day. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 3 A phenomenon I have often seen in the woods of the transatlantic countries named above, where it is familiarly called silver-thaw. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 626 Silver-thaw, the term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed suddenly by a thaw. 1891 Standard 26 Dec. 3/3 A ‘silver thaw’ is the result of rain falling from a warmer current of air at some little distance above the earth. silver thread n. used attributively to denote a variety of ironstone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > hard ironstone1522 mine-stone1612 dogger1670 gubbin1712 iron clay1750 small balls1793 penny-stone1803 mine-stuff1839 silver thread1855 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 193 Blue flats, silver thread, and diamond ironstone. silver top n. U.S. a disease in grasses which whitens the upper part of the stalk. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > characterized by part affected or appearance produced jaundice1600 black rot1769 root rot1831 leaf blight1849 leaf curl1850 black heart1862 icterus1866 albication1877 footrot1883 curl-leaf1886 silver top1890 stem-sickness1890 sleeping disease1899 mosaic1900 leaf mosaic1902 scorch1906 blotch1909 little leaf1911 ringspot1913 crinkle1920 vein banding1928 1890 American Naturalist 970 It is probable that these leaf-hoppers are responsible for much of the silver~top. † silver web n. Obsolete a kind of confection in sugar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections sugar roset1363 sugar-work1572 sugar snow1611 moss1706 sugar puffa1711 silver web1769 sultana1862 chip1876 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 167 Observe you don't put too much Sugar down at a Time for a Silver Web. silver wedding n. the twenty-fifth anniversary of a wedding (cf. silver-feast n.); (see also wedding n. 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > wedding anniversary wedding-anniversarya1684 silver wedding1849 golden wedding1850 tin wedding1863 pearl wedding1869 wooden wedding1870 diamond wedding1872 ruby wedding1879 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > anniversary > specific silver-feast1796 silver wedding1849 golden wedding1850 wooden wedding1870 diamond wedding1872 1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 21 The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear..A silvery faint memorial music swells. 1861 Queen Victoria Let. 13 Feb. in Dearest Child (1964) 307 You must promise to be with us for our silver wedding D.V. which will be in four years. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 417 (note) ‘Silver’ and ‘Golden’ weddings are generally kept in the North. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 134 An old man on the verge of the silver-wedding he might have kept as Chancellor. silver weight n. (a) the weight used for silver; (b) the equivalent weight in silver. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > specific equivalent weights talentc893 silver weightc1000 pennyweighta1398 solid1601 weight1890 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 92 Se sester sceal wegan twa pund be sylfyr gewyht. a1400 Sir Beues 1725 For him a ȝaf seluer wiȝt, Er he þat hors haue miȝt. † silver-worm n. Obsolete a glow-worm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm) glow-wormc1320 gold worm?c1475 glowbard?a1500 silver-worm?a1500 glose-worm1519 glass-worm1552 glaze-worm1578 glare-worm1607 night-worm1774 glow-bug1781 fireworm1821 glow-beetle1860 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 766 Hic auriglus, a sylverwurme. silver wreck n. a wrecked silver-ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > wrecked vessel wrackc1386 wreck?a1500 carcass1600 racka1658 silver wreck1700 1700 Wallace Acct. New Caledonia in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) (1708) III. 421 He pretends it was to search for a Silver Wreck. b. In names of animals, insects, etc.Various other names of moths, as silver bar, silver cloud, silver fringe, silver ground, etc., are given by Rennie (1832). silverback n. a mature male mountain gorilla, Gorilla gorilla beringei, distinguished by one or more patches of white or silvery hair just below the back of the neck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Gorilla (gorilla) pongo1625 troglodyte1774 gorilla1853 gorilloid1946 silverback1964 1964 G. B. Schaller Year of Gorilla viii. 202 He was a silverback in the prime of life. 1975 J. Goulet Human Ape (1977) i. 5 The old silverback was having trouble breathing. silver buckie n. (see quot. 1866). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Trochidae > member of genus Trochus topa1682 whirl1708 shuttle1750 trochus1753 trochoid1839 silver buckie?1841 trochid1861 ?1841 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 264 Our children call the shell Silver-buckies or Silver-Willies. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 155 Siller-buckie, the Grey purple-streaked pyramid shell, (Trochus cinerareus). † silver fly n. Obsolete (?). ΚΠ 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 42 Herbivora Erinopteros,..the Silver-fly. silver fox n. (a) a North American variety of the red fox with black silver-tipped hairs, the black fox; also transferred, the fur of this animal, esp. as a fashion item; (b) a fennec, Vulpes chama, found in southern Africa. ΚΠ 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 30 Dec. (1792) I. 76 On Niger Sound we saw a good silver fox. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 148 Canis Argentatus (Silver Fox). 1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 150/1 Bordered..with silver-fox fur and lined with cream-coloured velvet. 1892 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 11/2 Three-quarter capes, quilted lined, trimmed silver fox, $4. 1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 559 The beautiful silver, or black fox,..is usually nearly or entirely black, with the exception of the tip of the tail, which is generally white. 1912 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Animal Life Afr. xv. 231 The Silver Fox (Vulpes chama)..is silvery-grey, the underneath parts being tawny in hue. 1936 A. Christie ABC Murders xix. 143 [She] wears very lovely clothes. That crêpe marocain and the silver fox collar—dernier cri! 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie iv. 75 She lunched alone at the Ritz yesterday in a black wig, a battle bowler and her silver foxes. 1972 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VI. 170/2 The Cape or silver fox is found throughout the drier regions of South Africa. silver gibbon n. the silvery gibbon ( Hylobates leuciscus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hylobatidae > genus Hylobates > Hylobates lar (gibbon) gibbon1774 lar1819 silvery gibbon1824 wow-wow1824 silver gibbon1893 1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 65 The grey or silver gibbon, or wou-wou,..comes from the island of Java. silver jackal n. either of two South African animals, Canis mesomelas and Vulpes chama. ΚΠ 1892 J. A. Nicolls & W. Eglington Sportsman in S. Afr. 95 The ‘Silver Jackal’, which is the largest and most common of the South African Jackals. Thesaurus » Categories » silver lady n. (see silver-fish n. 2). silver-line n. (also silver-lines) a species of moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > bena prasinana (silver-line) silver-line1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 155 The Green Silver Lines. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist vi. 102 The Cream~spot Tiger moth,..the Green Silver-line. silver-marmoset n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Platyrrhinae (New World monkey) > genus Callithrix (common marmoset) Callithrix1572 wistiti1774 silver-marmoset1893 callitrichid1951 1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 192 The silver marmoset of Brazil (Hapale chrysoleucus). silver moth n. any of various moths marked with silver. ΚΠ 1893 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 5 ii. p. xlvi Mr. R. Trimen exhibited specimens of the ‘Silver Moth’ (Leto Venus) from the Knysna district of the Cape Colony. silver-sprig n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > breed or variety of (miscellaneous) > silver-sprig silver-sprig1799 sprig1859 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 385 The sort [is] silver sprig, which will not do well in other counties. 1804 M. Edgeworth Will i, in Pop. Tales I. 140 The true silver grey rabbits, silver-sprigs, they call them. Do you know that the skins of those silver-sprigs are worth any money? silver-tip n. a grizzly bear with white-tipped hairs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear bruin1481 Russian bear1607 game-beara1640 white bear1791 grizzly bear1807 grizzly1808 old man1886 silver-tip1886 1886 Turf, Field & Farm 26 Mar. 238/1 A silver tip is bad enough when he's wounded, and about as active a bear as there is. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 70 The bear..was an old ‘silver-tip’, and a big one. silver y n. (also silver y moth) the gamma moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Plusiidae > member of genus Plusia > plusia gamma (gamma moth) gamma1799 silver y1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. Index Silver Y. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 329 The caterpillars of..Plusia Gamma (Silver Y Moth)..are of this description. 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 65 The well-known Gamma Moth, or Silver Y. c. In names of birds. silver-bill n. (a) any of several birds of the genus Munia; (b) a South American tyrant bird of the genus Lichenops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > member of genus Platyrhynchus > types of loggerhead1657 walking tyrant1823 water-chat1834 silver-bill1883 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > genus Lonchura (silver-bill) nutmeg bird1820 mannikin1875 nutmeg finch1881 silver-bill1883 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 239 Munia malabarica, Indian Silver-bill. Hab. India. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 239 Munia cantans, African Silver-bill. Hab. North-east Africa. 1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 202 I have also seen gaucho boys catch the Silver-bill (Lichenops perspicillata) by hurling a stick or stone at the bird, then rushing at it. † silver bird n. Obsolete some East Indian bird. ΚΠ 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 401 Some silver birds. silver-dun n. a particular breed of domestic pigeon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types porcelainc1530 turn-pate1611 light horseman1661 runt1661 smiter1668 helmet1676 mammet1678 Cortbeck1688 turbit1688 turner1688 dragoon1725 finicking1725 Leghorn1725 nun1725 owl1725 petit1725 trumpeter1725 horseman1735 Mahomet1735 barbel1736 turn-tail1736 frill-back1765 blue rock1825 beard1826 ice pigeon1829 toy1831 black1839 skinnum1839 splash1851 whole-feather1851 spangle1854 swallow1854 shield1855 stork pigeon1855 Swabian1855 yellow1855 archangel1867 dragon1867 starling1867 magpie1868 smerle1869 bluette1870 cumulet1876 oriental1876 spot fairy1876 turbiteen1876 blondinette1879 hyacinth1879 Modena pigeon1879 silver-dun1879 silverette1879 silver-mealy1879 swift pigeon1879 Victoria1879 visor1879 ice1881 swallow pigeon1881 velvet fairy1881 priesta1889 frill1890 1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 187 The silver-duns are the aristocrats of the family. silver-eye n. one of several birds of the genus Zosterops, distinguished by white rings round the eyes. ΚΠ 1875 W. E. Atkinson Let. 16 Aug. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 399 I have also the mako mako, silver-eye, [etc.].., and besides the birds a great many shells. 1888 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 824/1 By most English-speaking people in various parts of the world the prevalent species of Zosterops is commonly called ‘White-eye’ or ‘Silver-eye’. 1911 A. E. Mack Bush Days 2 You will hear a whole chorus of bird notes..calling all together—thrushes, thickheads, silvereyes and peewees. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 129/2 Silvereyes..do much good by destroying scale-insects and other pests, and have thereby earned the name of blight-birds. 1977 Kuwait Times 23 Nov. 6/8 Three fell to Man, including a pigeon and a parrakeet. The rats have been responsible for at least five more (a thrush, a warbler, a fantail, a silvereye and a starling). silver-mealy n. a breed of pigeon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types porcelainc1530 turn-pate1611 light horseman1661 runt1661 smiter1668 helmet1676 mammet1678 Cortbeck1688 turbit1688 turner1688 dragoon1725 finicking1725 Leghorn1725 nun1725 owl1725 petit1725 trumpeter1725 horseman1735 Mahomet1735 barbel1736 turn-tail1736 frill-back1765 blue rock1825 beard1826 ice pigeon1829 toy1831 black1839 skinnum1839 splash1851 whole-feather1851 spangle1854 swallow1854 shield1855 stork pigeon1855 Swabian1855 yellow1855 archangel1867 dragon1867 starling1867 magpie1868 smerle1869 bluette1870 cumulet1876 oriental1876 spot fairy1876 turbiteen1876 blondinette1879 hyacinth1879 Modena pigeon1879 silver-dun1879 silverette1879 silver-mealy1879 swift pigeon1879 Victoria1879 visor1879 ice1881 swallow pigeon1881 velvet fairy1881 priesta1889 frill1890 1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 149 Such kite-barred birds are termed ‘silver-mealies’ by Scotch breeders. silver pheasant n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Lophura silver pheasant1829 Swinhoe's1863 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 23 The Silver Pheasants (Phasianus Nycthemerus). 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 610/1 The gold and silver pheasants [of China, Lophura nycthemera] of our aviaries. 1861 C. P. Hodgson Resid. Japan 324 Silver pheasants come from Nambu, partridges from Sataki. 1876 Nature 1 June 121/2 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens..include a Silver Pheasant (Euplocamus nychthemerus). 1887 Beldon in Wright Illustr. Bk. of Poultry 366 The Silver-spangled Hamburgh, or Silver Pheasant as it is commonly called in Yorkshire. silver plover n. (a) the red knot, Calidris canutus, in winter plumage; (b) (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing) lapwingc1050 wypec1325 tewhita1525 peewita1529 black plover1538 bastard plover1544 green plover1550 lappoint1584 peesweep1772 peeweepa1825 lapwing-gull1844 flapjack1847 teeack1869 flop-wing1885 peewee1886 silver plover1890 1890 Cent. Dict. at Plover Silver plover. 1899 G. A. B. Dewar Wild Life Hampshire Highlands v. 130 The silver plovers or lapwings..are to be seen and heard in every direction. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) Silver plover, the gray plover, Squatarola helvetica. silver-tongue n. U.S. the song-sparrow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of > song-sparrow song sparrow1810 swamp sparrow1811 rossignol1866 silver-tongue1884 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) iii. 371 M[elospiza] fasciata,..Song sparrow. Silver-tongue. d. In names of fishes.A number of other American, and some Australian, fishes are also designated in this way, as silver bass, silver cero, silver chub, silver hake, etc.: see Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer. (1882), Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. (1884) and Amer. Fishes (1888), Morris Austral English (1898). silver-belly n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Gerridae (moharra) mojarra1846 silver-belly1882 silver bream1882 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 43 It is necessary to cook the silver-belly, as it is often called, perfectly fresh. silver bream n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Gerridae (moharra) mojarra1846 silver-belly1882 silver bream1882 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 43 Mr. Hill..speaks of a silver-bream or white-bream. It is probable he refers to Gerres ovatus, a common fish of very compressed form. 1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 10 Gerres ovatus, a small but delicious fish, known to the fishermen as ‘silver bream’, ‘silver bellies’, &c. silver char n. ΚΠ 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 258 The two others were inscribed, the Red Charr, the Silver or Gilt Charr. silver eel n. (see quots.); also, a young eel before the adult coloration is developed. ΚΠ 1735 J. Swift & Sheridan Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 28 Nov. in J. Swift Wks. (1768) XIII. 143 For the rest, we are forced to take up with..silver eels, and such trash. ?1838 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 6. 175 Anguilla latirostris,..the Broad-nosed Eel... In the Tweed..it is distinguished from the others by the name of Silver-Eel. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 910 (note) This species [Trichiurus lepturus] is known as ‘Sabre-fish’ and ‘Silver Eel’, on the coast of Texas. 1952 New Biol. 13 76 At the silver-eel stage..it is ready to descend the river again. silver-eyes n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 35 These fishes are commonly known as sea-breams. One form termed silver eyes is said to pursue small fishes in Cardigan Bay. silver garfish n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Bill-Fish (Belone truncata), a small sea-fish fond of running up into fresh water during the summer... Also called Sea-pike, Silver Gar-fish. silver king n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Megalopidae ox-eyea1642 tarpon1699 megalops1834 savanilla1884 sabalo1889 silver king1889 megalopine1890 1889 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 164/1 No one..had fared any better than I as regards tarpon... No one could boast of having even hooked a ‘Silver King’. 1894 Cosmopolitan May 31/2 You never have seen the equal of the silverking—the grande coy—the tarpon. silver lamprey n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 400 The Silver Lamprey is always of less size than the ordinary dimensions of the Lampern. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 359 Petromyzon fluviatilis,..Lampern and silver lamprey. silver pike n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 109 Silver Pike, Esox argenteus... Native of New Zealand and other islands in the Southern Ocean. silver salmon n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1878 J. G. Brady Let. May in S. Jackson Alaska (1880) vii. 209 A silver salmon, weighing thirty-eight to forty pounds, is sold for fifteen or twenty cents. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 307 Oncorhynchus kisutch, Silver Salmon. 1901 Scotsman 26 Mar. 5/1 The silver salmon or coho..are freely taken by means of spinning. silver-side n. (also silver-sides) (see quots.). ΚΠ 1820 C. S. Rafinesque in Western Rev. 2 240 Silverside Fallfish... Vulgar names, Silverside, Shiner, [etc.]. 1851 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) viii. 88 The purer streams from the hills abound in..silver-sides. 1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 26 Cynoscion carolinensis.., spotted sea-trout..; spotted silver-sides. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 225 Smelt or sand smelt... A local name is silver-sides, from its colour. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The brook-silversides is a graceful little fresh-water fish, Labidesthes sicculus. 1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 316/2 Some of the silversides (Atherinidæ) are wrongly called ‘smelts’. 1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. x. 284 In the brook silverside..there is a single elongate filament that serves first for temporary flotation. 1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. xi. 373 Refractive errors change by several diopters during such measurements on schooling fishes, such as the silver-side (Menidia). silver sole n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 308 Silver Sole, Pleuronectes Argenteus..; native of the Indian seas. silver-spot n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 300 The fishes of the family [Maurolicus] which we have denominated Silver-Spots. silver trout n. North American any of several silvery trout, esp. Salmo gairdneri kamloops; also, = kokanee n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook) red fish1763 spring salmon1776 gorbuscha1784 keta1824 quinnat1829 Chinook salmon1851 coho1869 king salmon1871 silver trout1873 kokanee1875 salmon1884 sockeye1888 chisel-mouth1889 pink salmon1899 spring1900 tyee1902 pink1905 blackmouth1906 chum1908 greenback cut-throat1989 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout troutc1050 torrentillec1460 torrentinea1475 troutlinga1739 troutlet1829 trouty1848 silver trout1873 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo irideus (rainbow trout) rainbow1779 hardhead1792 mountain trout1805 brook trout1869 silver trout1873 rainbow trout1881 steel-head1882 1873 C. Hallock Fishing Tourist i. v. 30 To the above should be added the..brook-trout, the silver-trout, and the..salmon-trout. 1907 T. W. Lambert Fishing in Brit. Columbia 43 Every local fisherman speaks of having caught a red side or a silver trout, and firmly believes they are distinct species. 1937 Kootenay & City of Nelson, B.C. 62 The Kokanee or ‘Silver Trout’, which is in reality a landlocked Sockeye salmon abounds in the larger lakes of the districts. 1970 D. Waterfield Continental Waterboy i. 2 Enabling the silver trout to kokanee..to reach the formerly inaccessible river. e. In names of plants or trees (see quots. and the various nouns).Some other names of this type, as silver feather, silver grass, silver hair-grass, silver lavender, are current in dialect or local use. (a) silver bell n. (also silver bell tree) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > snowdrop tree and allies halesia?1756 silver bell1785 snowdrop tree1813 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 57 Silver-Bell Tree... The Corolla is of one petal, bell'd and bellied. 1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 123 The Snow-Drop Tree, Silver-Bell Tree, or Wild Olive. 1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 218 The Halesia, or Silver Bell, two species of which..are common in cultivation. 1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 505 Halesia tetraptera, the Silver-Bell or Snow-Drop Tree of the Southern United States. silver bennet n. ΚΠ 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. xii. 79 Black and silver Bennets. silver berry n. ΚΠ 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 381 Elæagnus argentea,..the Silver-Berry, may perhaps be found within our northwestern limits. silver birch n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] bircha700 birch-tree1530 weeping birch1606 Our Lady's tree1608 black birch1674 sugar-birch1751 white birch1766 red birch1774 yellow birch1774 paper birch1791 canoe birch1810 mountain mahogany1810 old field birch1810 mahogany birch1813 towai1845 river birch1846 kamahi1867 silver birch1884 wire birch1899 1884 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 334 It is here that the finest specimens of silver birch are to be found. silver chain n. ΚΠ 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Silver-chain, the white laburnum. silver chickweed n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > paronychia or whitlow-wort nailwort1611 whitlow-wort1650 paronychia1666 silver chickweed1856 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 62 Paronychia argyrocoma. Silver Chickweed. silver fern n. ΚΠ 1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 176 Gymnogramma. This genus is..distinguished by a yellow or white powdery substance, [and] hence called Gold and Silver Ferns. 1889 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 590/2 Gymnogramme,..of which G. chrysophylla and G. tartarea, both West Indian, are cultivated as the Golden Fern and Silver Fern. silver-head n. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. at Paronychia P. argyrocoma, the silver chickweed, or, as recently named, silverhead. silver herb n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tanaisie sauvage, Wild Tansie, Siluer hearbe. silver knapweed n. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 591 The great siluer Knapweed hath at his first comming vp diuers leaues spred vpon the grounde, of a deepe greene colour. silver oak n. ΚΠ 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 220 Stenocarpus salignus,..‘Silver Oak’. silver pine n. (also silver pine tree) ΚΠ 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 664 [The tree] brought from the Cape of Good-hope, where it is called the Silver Pine. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 665 The Silver Pine-Tree. silver thistle n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles thistlec725 carduea1398 wolf's-thistlea1400 cardoona1425 wolf-thistle1526 cotton-thistle1548 gum-thistle1548 oat thistle1548 black chameleon1551 ixia1551 Saint Mary thistle1552 milk thistle1562 cow-thistle1565 bedeguar1578 carline1578 silver thistle1578 white chameleon1578 globe thistle1582 ball thistle1597 down thistle1597 friar's crown1597 lady's thistle1597 gummy thistle1598 man's blood1601 musk thistle1633 melancholy thistle1653 Scotch thistle1660 boar-thistle1714 spear- thistle1753 gentle thistle1760 woolly thistle1760 wool-thistle1769 bur-thistlea1796 Canada thistle1796 pine thistle1807 plume thistle1814 melancholy plume thistle1825 woolly-headed thistle1843 dog thistle1845 dwarf thistle1846 welted thistle1846 pixie glove1858 Mexican thistle1866 Syrian thistle1866 bull thistle1878 fish belly1878 fish-bone-thistle1882 green thistle1882 herringbone thistle1884 Californian thistle1891 winged thistle1915 fish-thistles- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 526 Silver Thistel. This Thistel is called in..Englishe..Wilde white Thistell, and Argentine. silver wattle n. ΚΠ 1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt iii. 19 We camped among the butts of the Acacia affinis, or silver wattle. 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) 1229/1 Silver Wattle, Acacia mollissima. Silver Wattle of Tasmania, Acacia dealbata. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 271/1 The beautiful cool grey-green of the silver wattle. (b) silver beech n. an evergreen tree, Nothofagus menziesii, native to New Zealand (cf. Nothofagus n.); also, the timber of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > beech beech-timberc1450 beech-woodc1450 beech1823 silver beech1889 1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 175 The silver-beech..is known as ‘tawhai’ or ‘tawai’ by the Natives. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 8/3 Durability of..less than five years..Silver beech. 1966 Encycl. N.Z. I. 177/2 Silver beech.., a tree with small, thick, double-toothed leaves and a cherry-like bark on the branches and young trees, reaches heights of about 100 ft. silver beet n. Australian and New Zealand the seakale beet, Beta vulgaris; = chard n.² ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > beet or beetroot > chard-beet or chard chard1653 Swiss chard1832 silver beet1882 1882 Garden 15 Apr. 256/1 The Silver or Seakale Beet is grown for the sake of the midribs of the leaves. 1915 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Jan. 75 Early in February is a good time to sow silver-beet. 1951 J. Frame Lagoon 98 For dinner I had semolina and silver beet. 1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Feb. 2/4 Their hulls loaded down with taro, yams, chinese cabbage (rather like silver beet) and bananas. 1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 2/1 The novelty value of spaghetti bolognaise can often get over the hurdle of the silverbeet hidden in the sauce. silver maple n. A. dasycarpum, of eastern North America; also silver-leaved maple, white maple. ΚΠ 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 246 The sugar and silver maple, Acer saccharinum, and A. dasycarpon. 1846 D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 95 Silver Maple, Silver-leaved Maple, [in] New York. 1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 4 207 They are almost entirely silver maples, embracing 25,000 trees. 1880 Harper's Mag. June 69 The clustered buds upon the silver maples burst in their exuberance. 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arbor. Flora U.S. 288 Weeping Silver Maple..Variegated Maple, etc. 1929 E. W. Howe Plain People 20 The tree was called a silver maple, and we children believed that when it was old enough to bear, the fruit would be silver dollars. silver poplar n. U.S. = white poplar n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(b)(ii). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun] popple1229 popple-tree1229 abele?a1300 poplar1371 black poplar1542 white poplar1542 poppling1570 cotton tree1633 tacamahac1739 Lombardy poplar1766 poplar pine1770 Po poplar1776 grey poplar1782 cottonwood1787 pine poplar1789 liard1809 white-backa1825 necklace poplar1845 silver poplar1847 weather-tree1847 hackmatack1873 bitter-weed1878 balsam-poplar1884 Russian poplar1884 Lombardy1917 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 332 Silver Poplar... Some of the grass-plats in the public squares of New York have been quite over-run by the wide-spreading suckers of this tree. 1853 B. F. Taylor Jan. & June (1871) 80 The leaves of the Silver poplar, in breaths of air the faintest, go all day like French clocks. 1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. 4 448 The Silver Poplar is an abominable pest in loose soil, casting up suckers. 1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 173 A branch of the Silver Poplar. 1880 Harper's Mag. June 21/2 The silver-poplars showed only their leaden side. silversword n. a perennial herb, Argyroxiphium sandwicense, of the family Compositæ, native to Hawaii and bearing linear leaves with silvery hairs and clusters of purplish flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants wild sagea1400 yellow devil's-bita1400 white golda1425 cotula1578 golden cudweed1597 golden tuft1597 rattlesnake root1682 Cape tansy?1711 hawkbit1713 ambrosia1731 cabbage tree1735 hog's eye1749 Osteospermum1754 ox-tongue1760 scentless mayweed1800 old man's beard1804 ox-eye1818 echinacea1825 sheep's beard1836 shepherd's beard1840 cat's-ear1848 goatweed1869 silversword1888 khaki bush1907 venidium1937 khaki bos1947 Namaqualand daisy1963 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [adjective] > of other composite plants silversword1937 1888 W. Hillebrand Flora Hawaiian Islands 219 The ‘Ahinahina’ of the natives and ‘Silversword’ of the foreigners. 1898 J. A. Owen Hawaii ii. 40 The peculiar Silver-sword growing in the snowy region. 1917 Nature 100 57/2 Among the peculiar plants of the island is the silversword. 1937 Discovery Mar. 83 Not the least puzzling of the specialised animal and plant species of the Hawaiian Islands is the six-foot Silver~sword flower. 1965 P. Wylie They both were Naked ii. vi. 302 A silver-sword plant..grows only on a few high places on two islands [of Hawaii]. silver willow n. a variety of the white willow, Salix alba var. sericea, distinguished by silvery foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow red willow1547 water willow1583 goat's willow1597 rose willow1597 sweet willow1597 French willow1601 siler1607 palm-withy1609 sallowie1610 swallowtail willow1626 willow bay1650 black willow1670 crack-willow1670 grey willow1697 water sallow1761 almond willowa1763 swallow-tailed willow1764 swamp willow1765 golden osier1772 golden willow1772 purple willow1773 sand-willow1786 goat willow1787 purple osier1797 whipcord1812 Arctic willow1818 sage-willow1846 pussy willow1851 Kilmarnock willow1854 sweet-bay willow1857 pussy1858 palm willow1869 Spaniard1871 ground-willow1875 Spanish willow1875 snap-willow1880 diamond willow1884 sandbar willow1884 pussy palm1886 creeping willow1894 bat-willow1907 cricket bat willow1907 silver willow1914 1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 475 Silver Willow.—This is the most striking of all the forms of S[alix] alba in the intense silvery hue of its leaves. 1976 Country Life 18 Mar. 682/3 A group of silver willows..are annually pollarded. Draft additions June 2020 silver fox n. colloquial a handsome man with silver-grey hair; cf. fox n. 2c.Attested earliest as a nickname. ΚΠ 1953 H. Caen Don't call it Frisco 67 Despite his dashing nickname of ‘The Silver Fox’..Joe wasn't an especially dashing figure. 1974 Bee (Danville, Va.) 16 Oct. 10 d/6 Country music's ‘Silver Fox’, Charlie Rich. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Nov. The golden-boy politician turned into a silver fox at 50. 2015 Radio Times 27 June (South/West ed.) 4/3 Judi Dench, Bill Nighy et al..are joined by suave silver fox Richard Gere. Draft additions September 2013 silver gamma n. now rare (also more fully silver gamma moth) the silver Y moth, Autographa gamma. ΚΠ 1883 Househ. Words 14 July 197/1 We have frequently..disturbed and caught seven or eight specimens of..the burnished brass moth..and more still of its relatives the Golden and Silver Gammas. 1890 Essex Naturalist 4 9 (note) At Heligoland on the night from Aug. 6th to 7th, S.E., a considerable flight of the ‘Silver Gamma Moth’, Plusia gamma. 1903 Garden 179/2 The Michaelmas Daisies are also much appreciated, but more especially by moths, the silver gamma often haunting the plants in hundreds. Draft additions June 2016 silver nitrate n. Chemistry and Photography a soluble white salt which is weakly light sensitive and was formerly used in the preparation of photographic plates and films.Formula: AgNO₃. ΚΠ 1789 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. de Fourcroy Suppl. to Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. 314 Causticum lunare—Fused nitrate of silver.] 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 496/2 To prepare the acid from this salt, it is dissolved in nitric acid, and silver nitrate added. 1884 Photogr. News 3 Oct. 630/2 Before toning, the prints must be washed..to remove all traces of free silver nitrate. 1954 W. G. Palmer Exper. Inorg. Chem. 150 Well-crystallized silver carbonate may be readily obtained by passing a slow stream of carbon dioxide through an ammoniacal solution of silver nitrate. 2003 New Yorker 17 Feb. 198/3 The plates were bathed in light-sensitive silver nitrate, exposed while still wet, rushed to a darkroom and developed. Draft additions September 2007 silver surfer n. [with punning allusion to Silver Surfer, the superhero of a 1960s Marvel comic book; compare sense B. 5b] colloquial an elderly or retired person who uses the internet. ΚΠ 1997 Progressive Grocer June 9/1 Silver surfers: Senior citizens are the latest generation of consumers to qualify as diehard Net browsers. 2004 D. Perrons Globalisation & Social Change vi. 184 Users vary from silver surfers planning holidays..[to] children and teenagers chatting, downloading music and playing games. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). silverv. Brit. /ˈsɪlvə/, U.S. /ˈsɪlvər/ Forms: Middle English cilueryn, sylveryn, 1500s sylver, 1500s–1600s siluer, 1600s– silver; also 1800s Scottish siller. Etymology: < silver n. Compare German silbern, versilbern, Dutch verzilveren. 1. a. transitive. To cover or plate with silver; to coat with silver-leaf. Frequently with over. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > coat with silver silverc1440 besilver1610 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 456/1 Sylveryn, argento. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 718/1 I wyll sylver the hafte of my dagger thorowe out. a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 343/2 Their stockes be polished of the carpenter, and they bee gilded & siluered. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 517 They haue taken vp of late another custome, to siluer the trappings especially and caparisons of their horses of seruice. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Argenter, to siluer ouer; to gild, or couer with siluer. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1976) IX. 537 My coach..is silvered over, but no varnish yet laid on. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Silvering Rub with this mixture the metal you want to silver. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Copper may be silvered over by rubbing it with the following powder. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 191 There ain't enough in this vein to silver a tea-pot. absolute.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Metal-Gilders silver by the Fire: Painter-Gilders, all the other Ways.figurative.1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 325 Stay thy pretty little tuneful tongue, Nor silver o'er thy syllables. They will not Pass. b. To coat (glass) at the back with a mixture of tinfoil and quicksilver, esp. for use as a mirror. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [verb (transitive)] > coat mirror silverc1635 quicksilver1704 c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) i. i. 10 This glasse is falsly silverd, maks me looke as gray as if I were 4 score. 1753 B. Franklin Let. 12 Apr. in Wks. (1887) II. 287 Leaf tin, such as they use in silvering looking-glasses, is best to coat them with. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 7 in School of Arts (ed. 2) After this method common window glass, &c. may be silvered. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 412/1 The amalgam of tin is largely used in what is termed silvering mirrors. 1879 S. Newcomb & E. S. Holden Astron. for Schools & Coll. 93 The horizon-glass is divided into two parts, of which the lower one is silvered. 2. a. To invest or suffuse with a silvery hue or lustre. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light frot?c1225 burnishc1325 polisha1382 varnishc1405 silvera1592 shine1604 frub1611 rutilate1623 silken1757 gloss1762 pearl1843 gloze1880 lap1881 sheen1901 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] > make silvery silvera1592 silverize1605 a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Fiii^v Is not her face siluerd like that milke-white shape, When Ioue came dauncing downe to Semele. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. viii. 123 In azure arms, Silver'd with starres, and gilt with sunnie rayes. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xxii. ccxv. 338 Venus whose pure lustre silvers Night. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 108 Smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. 1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 362 The moon in full splendour silvered the wood on one side. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII vii. 68 While she still silvers o'er your gloomy path. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 230 It silvered the hummocks and frozen leads, and gave a softened lustre to the snow. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 10/1 A few kelts, silvered by a short trip to the sea, have been taken. b. To turn (the hair, beard, etc.) white or silvery. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (transitive)] > grey silver1603 grey1609 begraya1624 grizzle1740 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 241 His beard was..A sable siluer [1604 siluer'd]. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 429 Sage Echeneus, whose grave, rev'rend brow The hand of Time had silver'd o'er with snow. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 703 His head Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xv, in Tales Crusaders I. 289 She who mocks the grey hairs of a parent, never shall one of her own locks be silvered with age! 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxxii Thought, not time, had partially silvered the clustering of his raven hair. c. In past participle. Shaded off with silver. ΚΠ 1902 Fur & Feather 19 Sept. 229/1 Feet, ears, and face, nicely silvered off;..grand undercolour, well silvered off. 3. intransitive. a. To flow with a silvery gleam. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > with silvery gleam silver1807 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 51 And bason'd high..The bright Superior silvers down the day. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 75 While underneath their mingling grains, The river silver'd down the plains. b. To take on a silvery lustre; to fade away in this manner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (intransitive)] > shine with reflected light > take on a silvery lustre silver1878 1878 W. H. Mallock New Republic iv The moon was rising over the sea, and the sea was slowly silvering under it. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. 15 The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c825v.c1440
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silvern.adj.

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silverv.