noun. A lustrous white, ductile, malleable metallic element, occurring both uncombined and in ores such as argentite, having the highest thermal and electrical conductivity of the metals. It is highly valued for jewelry, tableware, and other ornamental use and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental and soldering alloys, electrical contacts, and printed circuits. Atomic number 47; atomic weight 107.868; melting point 961.78°C; boiling point 2,162°C; specific gravity 10.50 (20°C); valence 1, 2. cross-reference: Periodic Table.

noun. This metallic element as a commodity or medium of exchange.

noun. Coins made of this metallic element.

noun. A medal made of silver awarded to one placing second in a competition, as in the Olympics.

noun. undefined

noun. Domestic articles, such as tableware, made of or plated with silver.

noun. Tableware, especially eating and serving utensils, made of steel or another metal.

noun. A lustrous medium gray.

noun. A silver salt, especially silver nitrate, used to sensitize paper.

adjective. Made of or containing silver.

adjective. Resembling silver, especially in having a lustrous shine; silvery.

adjective. Of a lustrous medium gray.

adjective. Having a soft, clear, resonant sound.

adjective. Eloquent; persuasive.

adjective. Favoring the adoption of silver as a standard of currency.

adjective. Of or constituting a 25th anniversary.

intransitive verb. To cover, plate, or adorn with silver or a similar lustrous substance.

intransitive verb. To give a silver color to.

intransitive verb. To coat (photographic paper) with a film of silver nitrate or other silver salt.

intransitive verb. To become silvery.

To cover the surface of with a coat of silver; silver-plate: as, to silver a dial-plate.

To cover with anything resembling silver in color and luster; specifically, to coat with tin-foil and quieksilver, as a looking-glass.

To adorn with mild or silver-likeluster; give a silvery sheen to.

To make hoary; tinge with gray.

To assume the appearance of silver in color; become of a silvery whiteness.

noun. Silver hydrazoate (AgN₃), prepared by precipitating a solution of silver nitrate by one of sodium hydrazoate.

noun. Chemical symbol, Ag; atomic weight, 107.9. A metal of a white color, having a specific gravity of 10.4 to 10.7 (according as it is cast, rolled, or hammered), harder than gold, and softer than copper, having a tenacity about equal to that of gold, and melting at a temperature a little lower than copper.

noun. Silver coin; hence, money in general.

noun. Silverware; tableware of silver; plate; a silver vessel or utensil.

noun. In photography, a salt of silver, as thenitrate, bromide, or chlorid, which three salts are of fundamental importance as photographic sensitizing agents.

noun. Something resembling silver; something having a luster like silver.

noun. In old English law, a paym ent made to the king for liberty to abandon or compromise the judicial proceeding for the conveyance of property called a fine. Also called postfine. See fine, 3, and compare primer fine (under primer).

Made of silver; silvern: as, a silver cup; silver coin or money.

Pertaining or relating to silver; concerned with silver; producing silver: as, silver legislation; a (Congressional) silver bill; the silver men; the silver States.

Resembling silver; having some of the characteristics of silver; silvery

Having a pale luster or a soft splendor

Bright; lustrous; shining; glittering.

Having a soft and clear tone, like that fancifully or poetically attributed to a silver bell, or a bar of silver when struck.

Soft; gentle; quiet; peaceful.

intransitive verb. To acquire a silvery color.

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

noun. Coin made of silver; silver money.

noun. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.

noun. The color of silver.

noun. stephanite; -- called also brittle silver ore, or brittle silver glance.

noun. Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance, Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution of silver nitrate; -- also called fulminate of silver. When dry it is violently explosive.

noun. See under German.

noun. See Freieslebenite.

noun. See Cerargyrite.

noun. See Postfine.

"To help remember that the order of the bells is silver, gold, brass and iron, the old Mnemonics advises us to invent a story -- the following will answer: A couple of lovers once took a sleigh-ride, the horses carrying _silver_ bells."

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