单词 | silvered |
释义 | silveredadj. 1. a. Coated with silver or silver-foil; also of mirrors, glass, etc., backed with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > with precious metal silvered1480 plated1599 washed1772 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [adjective] > coated with silver silvered1480 besilvered1825 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 20 Thinges silverid. a1576 Lady Abergavenny Praiers in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones (1582) ii. 183 The siluered scepter of peace is offered vnto us. 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 206 Place the Golden Ball representing the Sun, and the Silvered ☾ representing the ☾ in two opposite points of the Ecliptick. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xxv. 109 The Silver'd Knight took the Golden Warden. 1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 157 In the middle..is fixed a piece of silvered-glass. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 197 The common reflector is only a silvered back burnished. 1840 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxi. 255 There were a number of gilded and silvered shields. 1881 Trans. Obstet. Soc. XXII. 125 It was..secured by a stout silvered-copper wire. b. Photography. Treated with a silver solution. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [adjective] mercurialized1648 ferro-prussiate1815 sensitive1839 albumen1850 sensitized1851 bromized1853 waxed1853 salted1855 collodionized1859 collodioned1870 colour-sensitive1879 colour-sensitized1888 unsensitized1889 fumed1890 silvered1890 unfumed1891 orthochromatized1902 backed1906 hypersensitized1914 hypersensitive1937 1890 Anthony's Phot. Bulletin 3 407 Not permanent prints,..but on silvered paper, which were tedious to get in dull weather. 2. Suffused with silver lustre; silver-coloured; whitened with age; silver-haired. 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 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 c1600 Ballad Spanish Trag. i. 15 in Kyd's Wks. (1901) 343 Vntill that age with siluered haires My aged head had ouer~spred. 1620 T. Peyton Glasse of Time i. 50 The dores thereof of siluer'd Pearle most white. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 121 Not Ancums siluered Eele exceedeth that of Trent. c1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Sec. Poems 169 Indulge the waning Days Of silver'd Age with placid Ease. 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 12 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 20 The amazing frame of the Pyrenees, rearing their silvered heads far above the clouds. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 214 Brushing through, By night, the silver'd branches of the glade. 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 41 The thinly silvered scalp of weak old age. 1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. v That love-dream on the dear silvered sands. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > timbre or quality > pure or clear brightOE silver1526 silvered1642 purea1791 silvery1824 pellucid1952 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica ii. App. 66 If an Harper harped in the Moon, His silvered sound would touch our tickled ear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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