silver

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A lustrous white, ductile, malleable metallic element, occurring both uncombined and in ores such as argentite, having the highest thermal and electrical conductivity of the metals. It is highly valued for jewelry, tableware, and other ornamental use and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental and soldering alloys, electrical contacts, and printed circuits. Atomic number 47; atomic weight 107.868; melting point 961.78°C; boiling point 2,162°C; specific gravity 10.50 (20°C); valence 1, 2. cross-reference: Periodic Table.
• noun This metallic element as a commodity or medium of exchange.
• noun Coins made of this metallic element.
• noun A medal made of silver awarded to one placing second in a competition, as in the Olympics.
• noun Domestic articles, such as tableware, made of or plated with silver.
• noun Tableware, especially eating and serving utensils, made of steel or another metal.
• noun A lustrous medium gray.
• noun A silver salt, especially silver nitrate, used to sensitize paper.
• adjective Made of or containing silver.
• adjective Resembling silver, especially in having a lustrous shine; silvery.
• adjective Of a lustrous medium gray.
• adjective Having a soft, clear, resonant sound.
• adjective Eloquent; persuasive.
• adjective Favoring the adoption of silver as a standard of currency.
• adjective Of or constituting a 25th anniversary.
• intransitive verb To cover, plate, or adorn with silver or a similar lustrous substance.
• intransitive verb To give a silver color to.
• intransitive verb To coat (photographic paper) with a film of silver nitrate or other silver salt.
• intransitive verb To become silvery.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover the surface of with a coat of silver; silver-plate: as, to silver a dial-plate.
• To cover with anything resembling silver in color and luster; specifically, to coat with tin-foil and quieksilver, as a looking-glass.
• To adorn with mild or silver-likeluster; give a silvery sheen to.
• To make hoary; tinge with gray.
• To assume the appearance of silver in color; become of a silvery whiteness.
• noun Silver hydrazoate (AgN₃), prepared by precipitating a solution of silver nitrate by one of sodium hydrazoate.
• noun Chemical symbol, Ag; atomic weight, 107.9. A metal of a white color, having a specific gravity of 10.4 to 10.7 (according as it is cast, rolled, or hammered), harder than gold, and softer than copper, having a tenacity about equal to that of gold, and melting at a temperature a little lower than copper.
• noun Silver coin; hence, money in general.
• noun Silverware; tableware of silver; plate; a silver vessel or utensil.
• noun In photography, a salt of silver, as thenitrate, bromide, or chlorid, which three salts are of fundamental importance as photographic sensitizing agents.
• noun Something resembling silver; something having a luster like silver.
• noun In old English law, a paym ent made to the king for liberty to abandon or compromise the judicial proceeding for the conveyance of property called a fine. Also called postfine. See fine, 3, and compare primer fine (under primer).
• Made of silver; silvern: as, a silver cup; silver coin or money.
• Pertaining or relating to silver; concerned with silver; producing silver: as, silver legislation; a (Congressional) silver bill; the silver men; the silver States.
• Resembling silver; having some of the characteristics of silver; silvery
• Having a pale luster or a soft splendor
• Bright; lustrous; shining; glittering.
• Having a soft and clear tone, like that fancifully or poetically attributed to a silver bell, or a bar of silver when struck.
• Soft; gentle; quiet; peaceful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb rare To acquire a silvery color.
• noun (Chem.) 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, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the “noble” metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
• noun Coin made of silver; silver money.
• noun Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
• noun The color of silver.
• noun (Min.) stephanite; -- called also brittle silver ore, or brittle silver glance.
• noun (Chem.) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance, Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution of silver nitrate; -- also called fulminate of silver. When dry it is violently explosive.
• noun (Chem.) See under German.
• noun (Min.) See Freieslebenite.
• noun (Min.) See Cerargyrite.
• noun (O. Eng. Law) See Postfine.