silver-barred 
Ma, a British species. Silver-barred sable, a British 
pyralid moth, Ennychia cinyulalis. 
silver-bass (sil'ver-bas), it. The mooneye, or 
toothed herring, Hyoilon tergisus. See cut un- 
der mooneye. [Local, U. S.] 
silver-bath (sil'ver-bath), 11. 1. In photog., a 
solution of silver nitrate, used especially for 
sensitizing collodion plates or paper for print- 
ing. 2. A dish or tray for the use of such a 
solution . That for plates is usually a flat, deep glass 
vessel inclosed and supported nearly upright in a wooden 
box. The plate is immersed and removed by means of a 
skeleton "dipper." 
silver-beater (sil'ver-be'ter), n. One who pre- 
pares silver-foil by beating. Compare gold- 
beater. 
silverbell (sil'ver-bel), n. A name common to 
the shrubs or small trees of the genus Halesia, 
natural order Styracese; the snowdrop-tree. See 
Halesia. 
silverbell-tree (sil'ver-bel-tre), n. Same as 
silverbell. 
silverberry (sil'ver-ber'i), . A shrub, Elmag- 
nus aryentea, found from Minnesota westward. 
It grows six or eight feet high, spreads by stolons, has the 
leaves silvery-scurfy and somewhat rusty beneath, and 
bears fragrant flowers which are silvery without and pale- 
yellow within, and silvery edible berries which are said to 
be a principal food of the prairie-chicken in the North- 
west. 
silverbill (sil'ver-bil), n. One of sundry In- 
dian and African birds of the genus Munia ; a 
waxbill. as the Java sparrow. P. L. Selater. 
silver-black (sil'ver-blak), a. Silvery-black; 
black silvered over with hoary-white: as, the 
silver-black fox. See silver fox, under silver. 
silver-boom (sil'ver-bom), . [D. zitverboom.] 
Same as silver-tree. 
silver-bracts (sil'ver-brakts), n. A whitened 
succulent plant, Cotyledon (PachypJiytum) brae- 
teosa, from Brazil. It is of ornamental use, 
chiefly in geometrical beds. 
silyer-busfi (sil'ver-bush), n. An elegant legu- 
minous shrub, Anthyllis Barba-Jovis, of south- 
ern Europe. It has yellow flowers and silvery 
pinnate leaves, suggesting this name and that 
of Jiipiter's-beard. 
silver-buskined (sirver-bus"kind), a. Having 
buskins adorned with silver. 
Fair silver-buskin' d nymphs. Sf&ton, Arcades, 1. 33. 
silverchain (sil'ver-chan), n. The common lo- 
cust-tree, Bobiniu Pseudacacia : imitated from 
goldenchain, a name of the laburnum. Britten 
and Holland, Eng. Plant Names. 
silver-cloud (sil'ver-kloud), n. A British moth, 
Xylomiyes conspicillaris. 
silver-duckwing (sil'ver-duk'wing), a. Not- 
ing a beautiful variety of the exhibition game- 
fowl. The cock has silvery- white neck and back, a wing 
showing the so-called duckwing marking, with silvery 
bow, metallic-blue bar, and white bay on secondaries, 
black breast, under parts, and tail. The hen is of a deli- 
cately penciled asben gray, with darker tail, black-striped 
silver hackles, and salmon breast. The legs are dark and 
the eyes red. The yellow- or golden-duckwing fowl is of 
similar coloration, but with yellow or orange of different 
shades in place of the silver or white. 
silver-eel (sil'ver-el), n. 1. The saber-fish or 
cutlas-fish, Trichiurus lepturus. Also called sil- 
very hairtail. [Texas.] 2. The common eel, 
when noticeably pale or silvery. 
silverer (sil'ver-er), . One who silvers ; espe- 
cially, a person employed in silvering glass. 
Dr. Arkle exhibited a man aged sixty-two, alookiug-glass 
silverer, who was the subject of mercurial tremors. 
Lancet, 1889, I. 631. 
Silverette (sil-ve-ref), . [< silver + -ette.'] 
A fancy breed of domestic pigeons. 
Silvereye (sil'ver-i), . A bird of the genus 
Zosterops, of which there are many species, 
whose leading common color-mark is a white 
eye-ring ; a white-eye. See cut under Zosterops. 
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bream Xotemiqontis chri/solruriin. See cut under 
shiner. 4. The tarpon (or tarpum) or jewfish, 
Meg<tl(i]>.<< fitldntictis or M. thrissoides. Also 
sabalo, savanilla. See cut under tarpon. 5. 
The characinoid Curimatus argenteus, inhabit- 
ing the fresh waters of Trinidad. 6. Any spe- 
cies of Lepisma, as L. saccharina or L. dotnes- 
silver-plater 
This picture is remarkable for its broad and pure til- 
veriness. Atheiiteum, Jan. 7, 1S88, p. 22. 
silvering (sil'ver-ing), . [Verbal n. of silver, 
t'.] 1. The art or practice of covering any- 
thing with silver, or with a bright-shining white 
surface like that of silver; also, a sensitizing 
with a salt of silver, as in photography. 2. 
Silver or plating laid on any surface. 
A silver cheese-toaster with three tongues, an ebony 
handle, and tilearing at the end. Steele, Tatler, No. 246. 
Amalgam silvering. See amalgam, 
silverite (sil'ver-it), n. [< silver + -ite 2 .] One 
who favors the free use of silver as money 
equally with gold ; abimetallist; specifically, in 
the United States, an opponent of the demone- 
tization of silver, and advocate of its coinage 
either without restriction OP to a large specific 
amount. [Colloq.] 
The attempt is made to cast a slur upon the xilreritn 
by calling them inflationists, as if to be an inflationist were 
the greatest of monetary sins. Science, VII. 267. 
silverize (sil'ver-Iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. silver- 
called 
mentioned. A. Newton, Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 824. 
silver-fern (sil'ver-fern), n. One of numerous 
ferns in which the under surface of the frond 
is covered with a white or silvery powder, as 
in many species of Nothochleena and Gymno- 
gramme. Compare gold-fern. For cuts, see 
Oymnogramme and Nothochleena. 
silverfiil (sil'ver-fin), n. A minnow of the ge- 
nus Xotropis, as N. whipplei, of the fresh waters 
of North America. 
silverfish (sil'ver-fish), n. 1. An artificial va- 
riety of the goldfish, Carassius auratus, more 
or less nearly colorless, or with silvery-white 
instead of red scales on much or all of the body. 
2. A sand-smelt or atherine ; any fish of the 
family Atheriiiidx: same as silversidfs. 3. The 
Silvertish i l.ffisrutj saccharina). (Line shows natural size.) 
tica, & thysanurous insect occurring in houses 
and damaging books, wall-paper, etc. See Le- 
pisma. Also called walking-fish, bristletail, fish- 
tail, furniture-bug, silver-moth, silver-tcitch, shin- 
er, and silvertail. 
silver-foil (sil'ver-foil), . Silver beaten thin. 
silver-gilt (sil'ver-gilt), n. \. Silver covered 
with gilding; also, gilded articles of silver. 
2. A close imitation of real gilding, made by 
applying silver-leaf.burnishingthe surface, and 
then coating with a transparent yellow lacquer. 
silver-glance (sil'ver-glans'), . Native silver 
sulphid. See argentite. 
silver-grain (sil'ver-gran), . In bot., the shin- 
ing plates of parenchymatous tissue (medul- 
lary rays) seen in the stems of exogenous wood 
when these stems are cut in a longitudinal 
radial direction. They are the little light-colored or 
bright bands that give to rock-maple, quartered oak, and 
the like their chief beauty, and make them prized in cabi- 
net-work. See medullary rayt, under medullary. 
silver-grass (sil' ver-gras),n. 1. See Phalaris. 
2. A variety of a multiform species of meadow- 
grass, Poa ceespitosa, of Australia, Tasmania, 
and New Zealand. 
silver-gray (si!' ver-gra'), a. and . I. a. Of a 
color produced by an intimate combination of 
black and silvery white; silvery or lustrous 
gray, as hair, fur, or cloth. 
Then never chilling touch of Time 
Will turn it silvcr-yray. 
Tennygon, the Ringlet 
Silver-gray fox, the silver fox (which see, under silver). 
Silver-gray rabbit, a silver-sprig. 
II. . 1. A silver-gray color. 2. [cap.] 
In U. S. hist., one of a body of conservative 
Whigs who acted together for some time after 
the general disintegration of the Whig party 
following its overwhelming defeat in the na- 
tional election of 1852: said to be so called 
from the silver-gray hair of their leaders. Also 
Silvery Gray. 
The conservative Whigs, the so-called Silver Grays, had 
supported them out of fear of the Republicans. 
H. mm UoUt, Const. Hist, (trans.), V. 200. 
In 1866 they [the Americans] were joined by the Silvery 
Grays, whom Mr. Fillmore was unable to guide into an- 
other harbor. T. W. Barnes, Mem. Thurlow Weed, p. 224. 
silver-ground (sil'ver-ground), a. Having a 
silvery ground-color: as, the silver-ground car- 
pet, a British moth, Melanippe montanata. 
silver-haired (siT ver-hard), a. Having hair of 
the color of silver; having white or lustrous 
gray hair. 
silverhead (sil'ver-hed), n. The silver chick- 
weed, Paronyehia argyrocoma. 
silver-headed (sil'ver-hed'ed), a. 1. Having 
a silver head, as a cane. 2. Same as silver- 
paired. 
Mrs. Skewton . . . clapped into this house a tilver- 
headed butler. Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxx. 
silveriness (sil'yer-i-nes), . The state or char- 
acter of being silvery. 
as silver. 
When like age shall eiluerize thy Tresse. 
Sylvester, tr. of De Faur's Quadralns of Fibrac, st. 119. 
silver-king (sil'ver-king), n. The tarpon, Me- 
galops atlanticus or thrissoides. 
silver-leaf (sil'ver-lef), n. 1. The thinnest 
kind of silver-foil. 2. A name of the buffalo- 
berry (Shepherdia argentea), of the queen's-de- 
light (Stillingia sylvatica), and of the Japanese 
and Chinese plant Senecio Kienipferi, var. argen- 
tea. 3. The white poplar. Seepoplar. 
silver-leafed (sil'ver-left), a. Having leaves 
with one or both sides silvery. silver-leafed 
linden. See linden, 
silverless (sil'ver-les), a. [< ME. silverles, sel- 
verles ; < silver 4- -less.} Having no silver ; with- 
out money; impecunious. 
He sente hem forth selverles in a somer garnement. 
Piers Plowman (C), x. 119. 
silverling (sil 'ver- ling), . [Early mod. E. 
silverling (= D. zilverling = G. silberling) ; < sil- 
ver + -ling 1 .'] An old standard of value in sil- 
ver; a piece of silver money; in the passage 
cited from the Bible, either a shekel or a half- 
shekel. 
Here have I purst their paltry silnerlinffs. 
Marloxe, Jew of Malta, 1. 1. 
There were a thousand vines at a thousand sttverlings. 
Isa. vil. 23. 
The canon's talk about " the censer and olive branch 
stamped upon a shekel" is as unwarranted as his name 
for the nltrrtinffs of the traitor [Judas]. 
JT. and g., 7th er., V. 35. 
silverly (sil'ver-li), adv. [< silver + -fy 2 .] Like 
silver, as regards either appearance or tone. 
Let me wipe off this honourable dew 
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. 
Shalt., K. John, v. 2. 46. 
Saturn's voice therefrom 
Grew up like organ, that begins anew 
Its strain, when other harmonies, stopt short, 
Leave the dimm'd air vibrating silverly. 
Keats, Hyperion, U. 
silver-mill (sil'ver-mil), . The mill, or metal- 
lurgical plant, used in treating silver ores by 
either the wet or the dry process, 
silver-moth (sil'ver-mdth), n. 1. Ageometrid 
moth. Baptapunctata. 2. The bristletail. See 
Lepisma, and cut under silverfish. 
silvern (sil'vern), a. [< ME. silveren, selvern, 
seolvern, < AS. sylfren, seolfren (= OS. silubrin, 
silafrin = OFries. selvirn = MD. silveren, D. zil- 
veren = OHG. silberin, silbirin, MHG. silberin, 
G. silbern = Dan. solverne = Goth, silubreins), 
of silver, < seolfor, silver: see silver and -en 2 .~\ 
Made of or resembling silver ; having any char- 
acteristic of or analogy to silver: as, "speech 
is silvern, silence is golden." 
Silvern orators no longer entertain gentle and perfumed 
hearers with predictions of its failure. 
A. Phelps, My Study, p. 37. 
Spirit of dreams and silvern memories, 
Delicate Sleep. 
T. B. Aldrieh, Invocation to Sleep. 
silver-owl (sil'ver-oul), n. The barn-owl: so 
called from its whiteness. See cut under barn- 
oicl. 
silver-paper (sil'ver-pa'per), n. White tissue- 
paper of good quality. 
Silver-plated (sirver-pla"ted), a. Plated with 
silver. See plate, r. t., and plated ware (under 
plated). 
silver-plater (sirver-pla"ter), n. One who 
plates metallic articles with a coating of silver, 
either by direct application or by electrical 
deposition. 
