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Silver trout

Silver \Sil"ver\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.

  2. Resembling silver. Specifically:

    1. Bright; resplendent; white. ``Silver hair.''
      --Shak.

      Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast.
      --Milton.

    2. Precious; costly.

    3. Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. ``Silver voices.''
      --Spenser.

    4. 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.)

      1. The cutlass fish.

      2. 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

        1. .

          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

        2. .

          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.

Wikipedia
Silver trout
The name "silver trout" is also sometimes used for rainbow trout.

The silver trout (Salvelinus agassizii) is an extinct char species or variety that inhabited a few waters in New Hampshire prior to 1939, when a biological survey conducted on the Connecticut watershed by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department found none.

Usage examples of "silver trout".

Over his mail he wore a soiled white surcoat with a weeping willow embroidered in pale green, but his cloak was fastened with a silver trout.

A silver trout ornamented the crest of his greathelm, twin to the one painted on his shield.

The cat carried a small brown rabbitand a gleaming silver trout that weighed close to twenty pounds.

He was forever dawdling when we walked out, stopping to examine the subtle shading of a primrose, or peer underneath a water lily to see the silver trout hiding there, or gaze for moments at a time at a raindrop poised at the edge of a leaf.

Glistening silver trout tumbled in the current, and the surface of the water was ringed with gold wherever the soft green leaves of a tree touched it.