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A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. Snowdrop tree. See Silver-bell tree, under Silver, a.

A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.

d solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc. -- Soft solder, a solder fusible at comparatively low temperatures; as, plumbers' solder, consisting of two parts lead and one part tin, is a soft solder.

ment in question as the number representing its atomic weight; thus, a normal solution of silver nitrate would contain 107.7 mgr. of silver nitrate in each cubic centimeter.

with a perceptible effect. "And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound." Dryden. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! Shak.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. [Obs.] There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now. Arbuthnot.

A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

tances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment). The four spirits and the bodies seven. Chaucer.

ion thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.

he Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. The spotted squeteague (C. nebulosus) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted wit…

present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot.

A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.

alue, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.

Appetite. [Obs.] Swift. To keep stroke, to make strokes in unison. The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. Shak.

A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.

representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.