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silvery
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Word definitions for silvery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silvery \Sil"ver*y\, a. 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. Besprinkled or covered with silver. Having ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from silver (n.) + -y (2). Related: Silveriness .
Usage examples of silvery.
And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely, alluring jet would be seen.
Beneath her spread out the green meadows that surrounded the keep, where a few Antler grazed in their animal forms, and beyond them sprawled a mass of buildings built of the same silvery stone that surrounded her.
He turned to look at Tuhluer, who was limping up to him through the phalanx of exoskel guards, his own emergency esuit and helmet deployed, the shiny bulge of faceplate reflecting the silvery diamond bubble that enclosed the Archimandrite and his chair.
Goldmouth and listen to the scraping of silvery exercising ballet slippers: Jenny is holding the bar, embarking on a career.
She paused to watch an old Malay fisherman unload silvery barramundi, thread them along an oar and, hoisting it to one shoulder, lift a bucket of cockle oysters and set off for town.
Closely followed by de Batz, he soon turned into the central corridor, which is open to the sky above, and was spectrally alight now with flag-stones and walls gleaming beneath the silvery sheen of the moon, and throwing back the fantastic elongated shadows of the two men as they walked.
They belong to the order of bristletails because of the three long filaments at their posterior end, but they get their name from their silvery, overlapping scales.
It looks to me through the hydroscope, at this distance, exactly like a tiny, silvery minnow.
A girl with a silvery costume passed first on a midget elephant with malanga ears.
Luna is a silvery iridescent sphere, planed smooth down to micrometer heights, luminous with diffraction patterns.
Then Dallas would shovel the opened oysters onto picnic tables covered with newspapers and the perfume of those washed-down mollusks gave off a silvery, slightly metallic musk of a rained-on acre of spartina.
And sapped by each returning flood Accept for monitory nourishment Those worn roped features under crust of mud, Reflected in the silvery smooth around: Not less the branching and high singing tree, A home of nests, a landmark and a tent, Until their hour for losing hold on ground.
He wore a silvery breastplate and silvery morion helmet, and paint suggested a black bush of beard upon his chin.
For a moment she glimpsed the top of a silvery perruque, the sheen of a mulberry brocade coat, and then he straightened and her brows lifted, for she faced the handsomest old man she had ever seen.
Thunder crashed through the inner space of the Matrix, and the dark of nothingness was riven by a picosecond of silvery incandescence.