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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.

A solution of 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.

r 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.

lver; -- 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.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.

An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

See Buffalo fish, below. Buffalo berry (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries. -- Buffalo bird (Zoöl.), an African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See u…

A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

e escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

al instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. Pope.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.