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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Silver
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(1):
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(2):
(a.) Precious; costly.
(3):
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(4):
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(5):
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(6):
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(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.
(9):
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
(10):
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
(11):
(a.) Resembling silver.
(12):
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(13):
(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(14):
(n.) The color of silver.