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Silver \Sil"ver\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver
leaf; a silver cup.
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2. Resembling silver. Specifically:
(a) Bright; resplendent; white. "Silver hair." --Shak.
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Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed
Their downy breast. --Milton.
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(b) Precious; costly.
(c) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. "Silver
voices." --Spenser.
(d) Sweet; gentle; peaceful. "Silver slumber." --Spenser.
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{American silver fir} (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under
{Balsam}.
{Silver age} (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of
the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers
of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of
the previous golden age, so-called.
{Silver-bell tree} (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree
({Halesia tetraptera}) with white bell-shaped flowers in
clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree.
{Silver bush} (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant ({Anthyllis
Barba-Jovis}) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage.
{Silver chub} (Zool.), the fallfish.
{Silver eel}. (Zool.)
(a) The cutlass fish.
(b) A pale variety of the common eel.
{Silver fir} (Bot.), a coniferous tree ({Abies pectinata})
found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of
Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150
feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine.
{Silver foil}, foil made of silver.
{Silver fox} (Zool.), a variety of the common fox ({Vulpes
vulpes}, variety argenteus) found in the northern parts of
Asia, Europe, and America. Its fur is nearly black, with
silvery tips, and is highly valued. Called also {black
fox}, and {silver-gray fox}.
{Silver gar}. (Zool.) See {Billfish}
(a) .
{Silver grain} (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular
tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an
exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak
they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple,
pine, cherry, etc.
{Silver grebe} (Zool.), the red-throated diver. See Illust.
under {Diver}.
{Silver hake} (Zool.), the American whiting.
{Silver leaf}, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very
thin.
{Silver lunge} (Zool.), the namaycush.
{Silver moonfish}.(Zool.) See {Moonfish}
(b) .
{Silver moth} (Zool.), a lepisma.
{Silver owl} (Zool.), the barn owl.
{Silver perch} (Zool.), the mademoiselle, 2.
{Silver pheasant} (Zool.), any one of several species of
beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of
the genus {Euplocamus}. They have the tail and more or
less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common
species ({Euplocamus nychtemerus}) is native of China.
{Silver plate},
(a) domestic utensils made of a base metal coated with
silver.
(b) a plating of silver on a base metal.
{Silver plover} (Zool.), the knot.
{Silver salmon} (Zool.), a salmon ({Oncorhynchus kisutch})
native of both coasts of the North Pacific. It ascends all
the American rivers as far south as the Sacramento. Called
also {kisutch}, {whitefish}, and {white salmon}.
{Silver shell} (Zool.), a marine bivalve of the genus Anomia.
See {Anomia}.
{Silver steel}, an alloy of steel with a very small
proportion of silver.
{Silver stick}, a title given to the title field officer of
the Life Guards when on duty at the palace. [Eng.]
--Thackeray.
{Silver tree} (Bot.), a South African tree ({Leucadendron
argenteum}) with long, silvery, silky leaves.
{Silver trout}, (Zool.) See {Trout}.
{Silver wedding}. See under {Wedding}.
{Silver whiting} (Zool.), a marine sciaenoid food fish
({Menticirrus littoralis}) native of the Southern United
States; -- called also {surf whiting}.
{Silver witch} (Zool.), A lepisma.
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Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See {Jove}.]
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1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and
reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He
corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
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2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the fifth from the
sun, the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them
all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles (69,758
kilometers), almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. It
revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance
of 5.2025 from the sun (778,140,000 km), the earth's mean
distance (the astronomical unit) being taken as unity. It
has a mass of 1.901 x 10^{27} kg, about one-thousandth
that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the
planets combined. It has an average solar day equal to
9.842 earth hours. The rapid revolution causes a
noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the
equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km. --HCP61
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{Jupiter's beard}. (Bot.)
(a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red
blossoms ({Centranthus ruber}).
(b) The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum}); -- so called
from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured
beard of Jove. --Prior.
(c) the cloverlike {Anthyllis Barba-Jovis}.
{Jupiter's staff} (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called
from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms. Jupon