silver-printing 
silver-printing (sil'ver-prin''ting), . In jilio- 
tog., the production of prints by the agency of 
a salt of silver as a sensitizer; especially, any 
ordinary " printing out " process m which the 
picture is immediately visible without develop- 
ment, as the process of printing upon albumin- 
paper. 
Silver-shafted (sil'vfer-shaf'ted), a. Carrying 
silver arrows.: an epithet of Diana. 
Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow, 
Fair stiver -sha fled queen, for ever chaste. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 442. 
silver-shell (sil'ver-shel), . A gastropod, 
Anomia epliippium: so called from its glisten- 
ing white color. See Anomia. Also called gold- 
shell, clink-shell, and ji ngle-shell. 
silversides (sil'ver-sldz), n. A silverfish, sand- 
smelt, or atherine ; any percesociue fish of the 
family A thcrinidse, having a silvery stripe along 
the sides. The most abundant species along the Atlan- 
tic coast of the United States is Menidia notata, also called 
Silversides or Sand-smelt (Menidftt notata). 
friar, tailor, and tinker, 5 inches long, of a transparent 
greenish color with silver band. The brook- silversides is 
a graceful little fresh- water fish, Labidesthes sicculus, 3J 
inches long, of ponds and streams from New York ana 
Michigan to the Mississippi valley (see cut under skip- 
jack). 
silversmith (sil'ver-smith), n. One whose oc- 
cupation it is to work in silver, as in the manu- 
facture of articles in silver. Compare goldsmith 
and coppersmith. 
silver-solder (sil'vfer-sod'er), n. A solder for 
uniting objects of silver. It varies in composition, 
and is accordingly termed hard,hardest,otsoft. Hardsilver- 
solder consists of three parts of sterling silver and one of 
brass wire. Hardest silver-solder is made of four parts of 
fine silver and one of copper. Soft silver-solder consists 
of two parts of fine silver and one of brass wire, to which 
arsenic is sometimes added to give greater whiteness and 
fusibility. 
silverspot (sil'ver-spot), n. A silver-spotted 
butterfly, as a fritillary of the genus Argynnis 
and related forms. 
Silver-spotted (sil'ver-spofed), a. Marked 
with spots of silvery color : said especially of 
certain butterflies thus spotted on the under 
side of the wings. Compare silver-striped, sil- 
ver-studded, silver-washed. 
silver-sprig (sil'ver-sprig), . The pelt of a sil- 
ver-haired variety of the common rabbit, Lepus 
cuniculus; also, such a rabbit. 
The true silver grey rabbits silver sprigs, they call 
them do you know that the skins of those silver sprigs 
are worth any money ? 
Miss Edgemorth, The Will, I. (Dames.) 
silver-stick (sil'ver-stik), . In England, an 
officer of the royal palace, so called from the 
silvered wand which is his badge. 
Silver-striped (sil'ver-stript), a. Striped with 
silvery color : as, the silver-striped hawk-moth, 
Dilephila livornica, a rare British species. 
silver-studded (sil'ver-stud'ed), a. Studded 
with silvery markings: as, the silver-studded 
butterfly, Polyommatus alcon. 
silvertail (sil'ver-tal), n. Same as silverfish, 6. 
Silver-thistle (sil'ver-this'l), n. A herbaceous 
plant. Acanthus spinosns, the traditional model 
of the architectural acanthus. See Acanthus, 
1 and 4. Also called silvery thistle. 
Silver-tongue (sil'ver-tung), n. The song-spar- 
row of the United States, Melospiza fasciata or 
melodia. Cones. 
Silver-tongued (sil'ver-tungd), a. Having a 
smooth tongue, or fluent, plausible, or convin 
cing speech ; eloquent. 
silver-top (sil'ver-top), n. A disease affecting 
grasses. See the quotation. 
Professor Herbert Osborn . . . said-the silver-top in grass 
is a whitening of the upper portion of the stalk, especially 
the head, which withers without maturing seed. Mero- 
myza, Chlorops, and Thrips have been credited with being 
the cause of the mischief. Professor Corastock has shown 
that Limothrips poaphagus is often the cause. The injury 
may result from any attack upon the juicy base of the ter- 
minal node that cuts off the flow of sap to the head. 
Amer. Nat., October, 1890, p. 970. 
Silver-tree (sil'ver-tre), n. 1. See Leucaden- 
dron. Also silver-boom. 2. An Australian for- 
est-tree, Tarrietia Argyrodendron. 
silver-vine (sil'ver-vin), . See Scindapsus. 
silverware (sil'ver-war), n. Collectively, man- 
ufactures of silver; especially, articles for the 
table or other domestic use made of silver. 
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silver-washed (sil'ver-wosht), a. Colored as if 
washed over with silver; frosted; hoary; pru- 
inose: as, the xilrrr-iraxhed fritillary, Arijyiniin 
li/:lii<t, a British butterfly. 
silverweed (sii'ver-wed), . 1. A plant, Po- 
tentilln An/ariita, having pinnate leaves covered 
beneath with silvery-silky down, it is a tufted 
herb, emitting runners which root at the nodes and send 
up peduncles bearing a single yellow flower. It is com- 
mon in the northern Old World, and is found in marshes, 
on river-banks, etc., northward in North America. 
2. A plant of the convolvulaceous genus Argy- 
reia, containing some 30 chiefly East Indian and 
Malayan species. They are climbing or rarely almost 
erect shrubs, bearing showy purple or rose-colored newel's 
with funnel-shaped corolla, and having the foliage often 
white-pubescent beneath. 
silver-white (sil'ver-hwit), n. A very pure 
form of white lead. Also called Chinese white 
and Kremnttz white. 
silver-witch (sil'yer-wich), n. Same as silver- 
Jixli, 6. Also written silver witch. 
Sllverwood (sil'ver-wud), n. A tree of the ge- 
nus Mouriria. Guettarda aryentea of the Ilubi- 
accse and Casearia leetioides of the Samydacese 
are also so named. [West Indies.] 
silver-work (sil'ver-werk), . Ornamental 
work in silver in general; vessels, utensils, etc., 
made of silver. 
silvery (sil'ver-i), a. [< silver + -y 1 .] 1. Be- 
sprinkled, covered with, or containing silver. 
2. Having the qualities, or some of the quali- 
ties, of silver. Especially (a) Having the lustrous 
whiteness of silver. 
Of all tlT enamell'd race, whose silvery wing 
Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 421. 
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, 
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 
Coleridge, tr. of Schiller's Ovidian Elegiac Meter. 
(&) Having a soft and musical sound, as that attributed to 
silver bells, (c) In iool., of a silvery color ; shining-white 
or hoary; frosted; pruinose. (d) In bot., bluish-white or 
gray with a metallic luster. Silvery-arches, a British 
night-moth, Aplectatincta. Silvery gade, the mackerel- 
midge. Silvery gibbon, the wou-wou, H;/lobates leu- 
ciscus. Silvery gull. Same as herring-gidl. Silvery 
hairtail, mullet, shrew-mole, etc. See the nouns. 
Silvery thistle. Same as silver-thistle. 
silvestrite (sil-ves'trit), n. See siderazote. 
Silvia, . See Sylvia. Cuvier, 1800. 
silviculture, . See sylviculture. 
Silvius (sil'vi-us), . See Sylvius. 
Silybum (sil'i-bum), n. [NL. (Vaillant, 1718), 
< L. silybum, sillybus, (. Gr. o'Mvftof (pi. a'Mv/ia), 
a kind of thistle, said to be < Egyptian sobil.'] A 
genus of thistles, belonging to the order Com- 
positee, tribe Cynaroideee, and subtribe Cardui- 
nese. It is characterized by flowers with a flat bristly re- 
ceptacle, unequal simple pappus, smooth and united ftla- 
ments, and a somewhat globular involucre with its nu- 
merous overlapping outer bracts spiny-fringed at the base, 
and tipped with a long, stiff, awl-shaped, spreading spine. 
The only species, S. Marianum, is a native of the Medi- 
terranean region, extending from Spain to southern 
Russia, occurring as a weed in cultivated grounds north- 
ward, and also found in the Himalayas. It is a smooth, 
erect perennial, with alternate sinuate or pinnatifld spiny- 
toothed leaves covered with conspicuous white veins and 
irregular spots, whence the name milk-thistle, as if drops 
of milk, ascribed in medieval legend to the Virgin Mary, 
had fallen on them. The large purple nodding flower- 
heads are solitary and terminal, and were once used as 
artichoke for the table, the young leaves being also eaten 
as a salad, and the roots boiled. 
sima, n. In arch., an erroneous spelling of cymn, 
Simaba (si-ma'ba), . [NL. (Aublet, 1775), from 
a native name in Guiana.] A genus of polypeta- 
lous trees and shrubs, of the order Simarubacese 
and tribe Simarubeie. It is characterized by flowers 
with small calyx of four or five imbricated sepals, the same 
number of spreading petals and of lobes of the erect nar- 
row disk, twice as many stamens with their filaments 
initiate to elongated scales, and a deeply parted ovary with 
four or five cells, ovules, and styles. There are about 14 
species, natives of tropical South America. They bear 
alternate pinnate leaves with entire coriaceous leaflets 
sometimes reduced to three or even to one. and loosely 
flowered panicles of small or medium-sized flowers. See 
cedron. 
simagret (sim'a-ger), n. [< F. simagree (OF. 
cimagree, chimcigree) ; Geneva dial, simagrie = 
Wall, simagraw, affected manners assumed to 
deceive, grimaces: origin unknown.] A gri- 
mace. [Rare.] 
Now in the crystal stream he looks, to try 
His simaijres, and rolls his glaring eye. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xiii. 31. 
simart (si-mar'), n. [Also simarre, simare, sa- 
mare, samarra, dinar, cymar, cymarr, < F. si- 
murre, samarre, OF. chamarre, a loose and 
light gown, F. chamarre, lacework, embroidery, 
= Pr.samarm =It. riamarra. samara, zamarra. 
;innirra, a night-robe; cf. dial. (Sardinian) ac- 
t-in marra, a sheepskin garment; < Sp. chamar- 
ra, zamarra, zamarro = Cat. samarra = Pg. 
Branch of Simaruba 
amara, with female flow- 
ers, a, a male flower ; b, 
a female flower. 
simblot 
samarni, <;timtirrn, u shepherd's coat of sheep- 
skin, Sp. zamarro, a sheepskin ; said to be of 
Basque origin.] A loose, light robe, worn by 
women: only in poetical use, without precise 
meaning. 
Her body shaded with a slight cymarr. 
Dryden, Gym. and Iph., 1. 100. 
The profusion of her sable tresses . . . fell down upon 
as much of a lovely neck and bosom as a simarre of the 
richest Persian silk . . . permitted to be visible. 
Scott, Ivanhoe, vii. 
simarret, . See si-mar. 
Simaruba (sim-a-ro'bii), n. [NL. (Aublet, 
1775), from a native name in Guiana for S. offi- 
/hiiiH.i ; cf. Simaba.'] A ge- 
nus of polypetalous trees, 
type of the order Simaruba- 
ceee and tribe Simarubesp. 
It is characterized by dioecious 
flowers with a small flve-lobed 
calyx, five petals surrounding a 
hemispherical and villous disk 
which bears ten stamens, or a 
deeply five-parted ovary with a 
single short style, a broad flve- 
lobed stigma, and five solitary 
ovules. It is closely allied to the 
well-known genus AUantus, but 
distinguished by a fruit of one to 
five sessile spreading drupes in- 
stead of as many thin wing-fruits. 
There are 3 or 4 species, natives 
of eastern parts of tropical Amer- 
ica, for which see mountain-dam- 
son, Quassia, paraiba, and para- 
dise-tree. They bear alternate and 
abruptly pinnate leaves, with en- 
tire coriaceous leaflets, and small flowers in axillary and 
terminal elongated branching panicles. 
Simarubaceae (sim"a-rQ-ba'se-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(L. C. Kichard, 1808), < Simaruba + -acex.~\ An 
order of polypetalous trees, of the cohort Gera- 
niales in the series Disciflorse, closely allied to 
the order B u tacess, from which it is distinguished 
by the usual presence of alternate leaves with- 
out glands, stamens each augmented by one or 
more scales, and but a single ovule in each 
ovary-cell. It includes about 112 species, of about SO 
genera, mainly natives of warm climates, and classed in 
the two tribes Simarubex and Ficramniex. They are 
mostly odorless trees or shrubs, with a bitter bark, alter- 
nate pinnate leaves without stipules, and usually small 
flowers, commonly axillary, panicled or racemed. See 
Quassia (with cut), Simaba, AUantus, Samandura, Picrx- 
na, and Picramnia. 
simarubaceous (sim"a-r9-ba'shius), a. Of or 
pertaining to, or belonging to, the Simanibacex; 
typified by or like Simaruba. 
Simarubeae (sim-a-ro'be-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. 
P. de Candolle, 1811), < Simaruba + -ex.~\ A 
tribe of polypetalous trees and shrubs, com- 
prising those genera of the order Simarubacefe 
which have a lobed ovary like the related Su- 
tacese. It includes 21 genera, nearly all tropical and 
American, with one from the Mediterranean, the dwarf 
shrub Cneorum, and with two in the United States, Cneo- 
ridium, a smooth shrub with bitter juice from California, 
and Holamntha, a leafless spiny shrub of New Mexico. 
simballt, An obsolete spelling of cymbal. 
Minslieu. 
simbere, . Same as simbil. 
simbil (sim'bil), n. An African stork, Ciconia 
or Sphenorhyiichus abdimi, or Abdimia spheno- 
Simbil {AbdiHiia spltenorhyncHa). 
rhyncha. having rather short legs for this fam- 
ily, white under parts, purplish upper parts, 
and greenish beak with sharp red tip. 
simblin, simbling (sim'blin, -bling), n. See 
atmtin. 
simbling-cake (sim'bling-kak), H. Currant- 
cake made to be eaten on Mid-Lent Sunday. 
]\~riiiht. See simnel. [Prov. Eng.] 
simblot (sim'blot), H. [< F. simlilot, also si- 
gliotn, n. pi.; < tint/In; xiiiyltr, trace lines with 
