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Silver, or money. [Archaic]

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.

An alloy of nicked with copper and zinc; German silver.

Silvery white. Gray.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

-- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins.

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

Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

lver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. -- Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. -- Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.

Containing clay and iron.