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ny one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

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.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

Mica. [Archaic]

To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.

The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.

To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.

The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.

The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.

The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

e metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.