Word Meanings - SILVERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.

Related words: (words related to SILVERING)

• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• SILVER
  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,
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• SPECULUM
  An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations. (more info) 1. A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archæology.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• FREE SILVER
  The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.