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Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.

Serving to cleanse, detergent.

See Astringent.

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Agency. Beau. & Fl.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

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.

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.

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.

er; -- 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.

Ascending; (Bot.)