SILVER-FISH
SIL'VER-FISH, noun A fish of the size of a small carp, having a white color, striped with silvery lines.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SILVER-THISTLE
SIL'VER-THISTLE, noun A plant.
SILVER-TREE
SIL'VER-TREE, noun A plant of the genus Protea.
SILVER-WEED
SIL'VER-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Potentilla.
SILVERED
SIL'VERED, participle passive Covered with a thin coat of silver; rendered smooth and lustrous; made white or a hoary.
SILVERING
SIL'VERING, participle present tense Covering the surface with a thin coat of silver; foliating; rendering mildly lustrous; rendering white.SIL'VERING, noun The art, operation o...
SILVERLY
SIL'VERLY, adverb With the appearance of silver.
SILVERSMITH
SIL'VERSMITH, noun One whose occupation is to work'in silver, or in manufactures of which the precious metals form a part.
SILVERY
SIL'VERY, adjective1. Like silver; having the appearance of silver; white; of a mild luster. Of all the enameled race whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring...
SIMAGRE
SIM'AGRE, noun Grimace.
SIMAR
SIM'AR, SIMA'RE, noun A woman's robe. [Not in use.]
SIMARE
SIM'AR, SIMA'RE, noun A woman's robe. [Not in use.]
SIMILAR
SIM'ILAR, adjective [Latin similis; Gr. omaloV.] Like; resembling; having a like form or appearance. similar may signify exactly alike, or having a general likeness, a likeness ...
SIMILARITY
SIMILAR'ITY, noun Likeness; resemblance; as a similarity of features. There is a as a similarity in the features of the Laplanders and Samoiedes, but little similarity between t...
SIMILARLY
SIM'ILARLY, adverb In like manner; with resemblance.
SIMILE
SIMILE, noun sim'ily. [Latin] In rhetoric, similitude; a comparison of two thing which, however different in other respects, have some strong point or points of resemblance; by ...
SIMILITUDE
SIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin similitudo.]1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our ...
SIMILITUDINARY
SIMILITU'DINARY, adjective Denoting resemblance or comparison.
SIMILOR
SIM'ILOR, noun A name given to an alloy of red copper and zinc, made in the best proportions to imitate silver and gold.
SIMITAR
SIMITAR. [See Cimeter.]
SIMMER
SIM'MER, verb intransitive [Gr. zumhm, zumow, to ferment.] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing. Simmering is incipient ebullition, when little bubbles are formed on the edg...
SIMNEL
SIM'NEL, noun A kind of sweet cake; a bun.
SIMOIACALLY
SIMOI'ACALLY, adverb With the guilt or offense of simony.
SIMONIAC
SIMO'NIAC, noun [See Simony.] One who buys or sells preferment in the church.
SIMONIACAL
SIMONI'ACAL, adjective1. Guilty of simony.2. Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; as a simoniacal presentation.
SIMONIOUS
SIMO'NIOUS, adjective Partaking of simony; given to simony.
SIMONY
SIM'ONY, noun [from Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts 8:1] The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; or the corru...