(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(a.) Precious; costly.
(a.) Resembling silver.
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(n.) The color of silver.
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
(v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.