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To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed. -- Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.

A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.

Prepared with chloride of silver through the agency of common salt.

Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.

e light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth. Ure.

A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.

Prepared with nitrate of silver.

of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.

sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor. Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass, in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9, 10. Where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 20. I love him not, nor fear him. Shak. Where neither party is nor true, nor kind. Shak. Simois nor…

wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]

Any species of the genus Elæagus. See Eleagnus. The small silvery berries of the common species (Elæagnus hortensis) are called Trebizond dates, and are made into cakes by the Arabs.

colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called also king of the herrings.

A sort of gold or silver lace. Johnson.

A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.