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Silvern

Silvern \Sil"vern\,

  1. [AS. seolfern, sylfren.] Made of silver. [Archaic.]
    --Wyclif (Acts xix. 24).

    Speech is silvern; silence is golden.
    --Old Prover

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
silvern

Middle English silveren, from Old English seolfren "made of silver;" see silver (n.) + -en (2). Similar formation in German silbern, Dutch zilveren. Fallen from use in English except in poetry.

Wiktionary
silvern

a. (context archaic English) made of silver.

WordNet
silvern
  1. adj. resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" [syn: silvery]

  2. having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" [syn: silver, silvery]

Usage examples of "silvern".

Cobra warriors to Silvern and Adirondack without truly understanding their psychological state.

Adirondack and maybe Silvern and Iberiand too in what amounts to a war of retribution.

The vast columns rose on every side of him, glittering with silvern damp, and the curtain of fungi stirred overhead like a black pall.

How sweet smells the hay down there in the flat meads through which the silvern river runs, lined on each side by bright green pollard trees!

Silence and silvern solitude till it made you dumbly shrink, And you thought to hear with an outward ear the things you thought to think.

Most of the Council had even stronger memories than that: the Troft occupation of the Dominion worlds Silvern and Adirondack had occurred only 43 years ago, ultimately becoming the impetus for the original Cobra project.

Against the silvern light, Bristol appeared to me in black silhouette.

Then suddenly in that silence clearly I heard the sound of silvern laughter, soft, sweet laughter that seemed to come from the skies above and though it was so low to fill the shrine and all the hall beyond.

I noted that an irregular patch of light lay silvern on the moist ground under the elms where otherwise lay shadow.

Then, very faintly, I seemed to detect the silvern ringing receding away through distant rooms.

Through the leaded panes of the window above the writing-table swept a silvern beam of moonlight.

The full moon had just risen above a tope of tamarind trees, and its silvern radiance revealed every detail of the scene.

Altar were open and the tiny forms of Mani and Kiryla went pacing into the black maw beyond them, dragging silvern chains.

Sometimes a shaft of golden or silvern light blinded me or illuminated a mysterious, twisting corridor of foliage.

Framed in the portal, uprose a slim figure, seeming like a black silhouette upon a silvern background, or a wondrous statue in ebony.