ARGENTINE

a. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.

3.
n.

A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

4.
n.

White metal coated with silver. Simmonds.

5.
n.

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

6.
n.

A citizen of the Argentine Republic.