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In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]

Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9.

n countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.

earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.

h or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.

Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.

Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc. Brocaded flowers o'er the gay mantua shine. Gay.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.

ting or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.

A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. Simmonds.