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silvern

Adjective

sil=vern

WORDNET DICTIONARY

silvern(s = adj.all) silvery - resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"
silvern(s = adj.all) silver, silvery - having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"

silvern, a. [AS. seolfern, sylfren.].

Made of silver. Wyclif (Acts xix. 24). [1913 Webster]

"Speech is silvern; silence is golden." [1913 Webster]

silvern, adj. archaic or poet. = SILVER adj.

Etymology

OE seolfren, silfren (as SILVER)

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