The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silver \Sil"ver\, a.
Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
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Resembling silver. Specifically:
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Bright; resplendent; white. ``Silver hair.''
--Shak.Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast.
--Milton. Precious; costly.
Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. ``Silver voices.''
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Sweet; gentle; peaceful. ``Silver slumber.'' --Spenser. American silver fir (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under Balsam. Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of the previous golden age, so-called. Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree ( Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree. Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant ( Anthyllis Barba-Jovis) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage. Silver chub (Zo["o]l.), the fallfish. Silver eel. (Zo["o]l.)
The cutlass fish.
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A pale variety of the common eel. Silver fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree ( Abies pectinata) found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150 feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine. Silver foil, foil made of silver. Silver fox (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the common fox ( Vulpes vulpes, variety argenteus) found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. Its fur is nearly black, with silvery tips, and is highly valued. Called also black fox, and silver-gray fox. Silver gar. (Zo["o]l.) See Billfish
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Silver grain (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc.
Silver grebe (Zo["o]l.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver.
Silver hake (Zo["o]l.), the American whiting.
Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very thin.
Silver lunge (Zo["o]l.), the namaycush.
Silver moonfish.(Zo["o]l.) See Moonfish
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Silver moth (Zo["o]l.), a lepisma.
Silver owl (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl.
Silver perch (Zo["o]l.), the mademoiselle, 2.
Silver pheasant (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of the genus Euplocamus. They have the tail and more or less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common species ( E. nychtemerus) is native of China.
Silver plate, domestic utensils made of silver.
Silver steel, an alloy of steel with a very small proportion of silver.
Silver stick, a title given to the title field officer of the Life Guards when on duty at the palace. [Eng.]
--Thackeray.Silver tree (Bot.), a South African tree ( Leucadendron argenteum) with long, silvery, silky leaves.
Silver trout, (Zo["o]l.) See Trout.
Silver wedding. See under Wedding.
Silver whiting (Zo["o]l.), a marine sci[ae]noid food fish ( Menticirrus littoralis) native of the Southern United States; -- called also surf whiting.
Silver witch (Zo["o]l.), A lepisma.
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Wikipedia
Silver steel is common tool steel that is supplied as a centerless ground round bar (with tolerances similar to that of drill rod). The name comes from the highly polished appearance of the rods; there is no silver in the alloy.
Amongst other applications, it has been widely used to make such things as punches, engravers, screwdrivers. Sheffield silver steel is used in France as a blade steel for straight razors. In Finland, German silver steel was and still is widely used for Puukko knives.
The composition is defined by UK specification BS-1407, and is given below.
In the annealed state it has a hardness of 27 HRC. It can be hardened to 64 HRC.
The European/Werkstoff equivalent is 1.2210 / 115CrV3, which also includes some vanadium.
Composition of Silver Steelrowspan=2| Element
colspan=3| BS-1407 Silver Steel
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colspan=2| DIN 1.2210 / 115CrV3
Min
Typ
Max
Min
Carbon
0.95%
1.13%
1.25%
Chromium
0.35%
0.43%
0.45%
Manganese
0.25%
0.37%
0.45%
Silicon
0
0.22%
0.40%
Vanadium
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0.07%
0.12%
Phosphorus
0
0.014%
0.045%
Sulphur
0
0.018%
0.045%
Iron
colspan=3 align=center| Balance
colspan=2 align=center| Balance
Usage examples of "silver steel".
Red iron became silver steel, pure as snow, strong as the mountain itself.
Another move brought a chiming surge of some power I could feel even from half a block away singing through the silver steel of her sword, and she flicked it lightly at the zombie's head.
Another move brought a chiming surge of some power I could feel even from half a block away singing through the silver steel of her sword, and she flicked it lightly at the zombie’.
In an eyeblink, the blade was out, silver steel gleaming red in the firelight, the weapon striking forward before Cantor could move.
The silver steel flashed over his head and his attacker roared again, a screech of fury.
He sat with the closed book in his lap, staring into the wavering shadows, living in full detail the wanderings and suffering of his young nation, sharing the agony at the barricades when the black heathen hordes poured down upon them with war plumes tossing and the silver steel of the assegais drumming on rawhide shields like the surf of a gale-driven sea, sharing the wonder of voyaging out over the grassy ocean of the high continent into a beautiful wilderness unspoiled and unpeopled to take it as their own, finally sharing the bitter torment as the free land was wrested from them again by arrogant foreigners in their warlike legions and the final outrage of slavery, political and economic, was thrust upon them in their own land, the land that their fathers had won and in .
I had a letter from him today, she :announced proudly, and Miss Lucy nodded her silver curls and beamed through the silver steel frames of her spectacles.