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• Silver

  ·adj Precious; costly. II. Silver ·adj Resembling silver. III. Silver ·noun The color of silver. ...

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• Silver

  Used for a great variety of purposes, as may be judged from the frequent references to it in Scriptu...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• silver

  or Silver-fish n. a Tasmanian name for Caranx georgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Carangidae, the Wh...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Silver

  In very early times silver was used for ornaments, (Genesis 24:53) and for vessels of various kinds....

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Ale silver

  ·- A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city. ...

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• Cat-silver

  ·noun <<Mica>>. ...

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• Free silver

  ·add. ·- The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio wit...

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• Rep-silver

  ·noun Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of rea...

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• Silver certificate

  ·add. ·- A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a spec...

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• Silver State

  ·add. ·- Nevada; — a nickname alluding to its silver mines. ...

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• Silver-gray

  ·adj Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair. ...

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• Silver Street

  West from Wood Street at No. 8i into Falcon Square (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within and ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• silver laced

  Replete with lice. The cove's kickseys are silver laced: the fellow's breeches are covered with lice...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• silver-fish

  See silver ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• silver-belly

  n. name given: 1) in New SouthWales, to the fish Silver-Bream (q.v.); 2) in Tasmania,to various s...

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• silver-bream

  or White-Bream n. a New South Wales fish, Gerres ovatus, Gunth.,family Percidae; also called Silve...

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• silver-eye

  n. a bird-name. Same as Wax-eye, White-eye, or Blight-bird (q.v.). 1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of N...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• silver-perch

  n. a fresh-water fish,i.q. Bidyan Ruffe (q.v.). ...

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• silver-tail

  n. a bush term for a «swell» :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.See Hut. ...

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• silver-trevally

  n. See trevally. ...

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• silver fox

  A black fox, with white king-hairs interspersed on the back of it.--Cartwright's Labrador. Like the ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• silver-cædua

  A statute term for wood under twenty years' growth. ...

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• silver-oar

  One of the badges of the civil court afloat, conferring the power to arrest for debt if not less tha...

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• silver-thaw

  The term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed ...

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• (St.) Matthew Silver Street

  Mentioned in Fabyan's Chronicle. See St. Olave Silver Street. ...

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• (St.) Olave Silver Street

  On the south side of Silver Street at its junction with Noble Street and Falcon Square. In Cripplega...

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• silver jew-fish

  n. a New South Wales name forthe young of the fish called Teraglin, or of the true Jew-fish (q.v.);...

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• silver-leaf boree

  n. i.q. boree (q.v.). ...

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• Piece Of Silver

  I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...

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• Gold and Silver Wiredrawers

  Incorporated 1623. ...

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• (St.) Olave Silver Street Churchyard

  On the south side of Silver Street at its junction with Monkwell Street (Rocque, 1746). It still oc...

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• Silver Street, Bouverie Street

  See Pleydell Street. ...

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• Silver Street, Bridgewater Square

  East out of Charles Street to Collier's Court, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-O.S. 1880)....

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• Dudley Court, Silver Street, Cripplegate

  See Red Lion Court. ...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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