Word Meanings - SILVERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary

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• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• 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,
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• SILVER CERTIFICATE
  A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal
• SILVERY
  1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope. 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the
• SILVERITE
  One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• MONETARY
  Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary. "The monetary relations of Europe." E. Everett. Monetary unit, the standard of a national currency, as the dollar in the United States, the pound in England, the franc in France, the
• SILVERN
  Made of silver. Wyclif . Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.
• SILVERBILL
  An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.
• SILVERBOOM
  See LEUCADENDRON
• SILVERINESS
  The state of being silvery.
• SILVERSPOT
  Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.
• SILVERSIDES
  Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
• SILVERLY
  Like silver in appearance or in sound. Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. Shak.
• SILVERLING
  A small silver coin. A thousand vines at a thousand silverings. Isa. vii. 23.
• SILVERING
  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.
• 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.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• REP-SILVER
  Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKSILVERING
  The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• DESILVER
  To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
• ALE SILVER
  A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.