Word Meanings - SILVERLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small silver coin. A thousand vines at a thousand silverings. Isa. vii. 23.

Related words: (words related to SILVERLING)

• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• THOUSANDTH
  1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. 2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into
• 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,
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• 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.
• SILVERN
  Made of silver. Wyclif . Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• 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.
• THOUSAND
  1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. 2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares." Shak.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• 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.
• REP-SILVER
  Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
• WAVINESS
  The quality or state of being wavy.
• 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.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• LEAVINESS
  Leafiness.
• HEAVINESS
  The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.