Ale silver () A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city. |
Cat-silver (n.) Mica. |
Embroideries (pl. ) of Embroidery |
Gold (n.) Alt. of Goolde |
Gold (v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7. |
Gold (v. t.) Money |
Gold (v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal |
Gold (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure |
Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded. |
Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. |
Gold-bound (a.) Encompassed with gold. |
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Mannheim gold () A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. |
Pack thread () See under 2d Pack. |
Purl (v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery. |
Purl (n.) An embroidered and puckered border |
Purl (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. |
Purl (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions |
Purl (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations |
Purl (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid |
Purl (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions |
Purl (n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced |
Purl (n.) A tern. |
Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain. |
Silver (n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5. |
Silver (n.) Coin made of silver |
Silver (n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver. |
Silver (n.) The color of silver. |
Silver (a.) Of or pertaining to silver |
Silver (a.) Resembling silver. |
Silver (a.) Bright |
Silver (a.) Precious |
Silver (a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. |
Silver (a.) Sweet |
Silver (v. t.) To cover with silver |
Silver (v. t.) To polish like silver |
Silver (v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver. |
Silver (v. i.) To acquire a silvery color. |
Silver-gray (a.) Having a gray color with a silvery luster |
Thread (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length |
Thread (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark |
Thread (n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut |
Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor |
Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition |
Thread (v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of |
Thread (v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way |
Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in |
Thread-shaped (a.) Having the form of a thread |
gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
black and gold garden spider Argiope aurantia | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
silver fox | red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white |
grizzly grizzly bear silvertip silver-tip Ursus horribilis Ursus arctos horribilis | powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America |
gold-tail moth Euproctis chrysorrhoea | white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft |
silver hake Merluccius bilinearis whiting | found off Atlantic coast of North America |
coho cohoe coho salmon blue jack silver salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
white perch silver perch Morone americana | small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams |
threadfish thread-fish Alectis ciliaris | fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins |
silver perch mademoiselle Bairdiella chrysoura | small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch, found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico |
silver whiting Menticirrhus littoralis | a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States |
silver jenny Eucinostomus gula | silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic |
Acapulco gold Mexican green | a particularly potent variety of marijuana |
braid gold braid braiding | trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains |
flatware silver | silverware eating utensils |
gold foil | foil made of gold |
gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
gold medal | a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition |
goldmine gold mine | a mine where gold ore is found |
goldmine gold mine | a good source of something that is desired |
gold plate | a thin plating of gold on something |
gold plate | tableware that is plated with gold |
lisle lisle thread | a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) |
mild silver protein Argyrol | antiseptic consisting of a compound of protein and silver (trade name Argyrol) |
purl purl stitch | a basic knitting stitch |
purl | gold or silver wire thread |
screen silver screen projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
screw thread thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
silver medal silver | a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition |
silver mine | a mine where silver ore is dug |
silver plate | a thin layer of silver deposited on something |
silver plate | tableware that is plated with silver |
silver protein | a colloid preparation of protein (albumin or gelatin) and silver oxide, used in aqueous solution as an antibacterial agent |
thread yarn | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
ash grey ash gray silver silver grey silver gray | a light shade of grey |
amber gold | a deep yellow color, an amber light illuminated the room, he admired the gold of her hair |
old gold | a dark yellow |
gold | something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc., the child was as good as gold, she has a heart of gold |
silver bullet | a simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem, no silver bullet can make the world safe from terrorism |
train of thought thread | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together, I couldn't follow his train of thought, he lost the thread of his argument |
gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
silver screen | the film industry |
Silver Star Medal Silver Star | a United States military decoration for gallantry in action |
boom bonanza gold rush gravy godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
silver lining bright side | a consoling aspect of a difficult situation, every cloud has a silver lining, look on the bright side of it |
gold fever | greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush |
silver salmon coho salmon coho cohoe | fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes |
gold coast | a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living, usually along a coastal area, Chicago's gold coast is along Lake Michigan |
Ghana Republic of Ghana Gold Coast | a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British |
Nevada Silver State Battle Born State Sagebrush State NV | a state in the southwestern United States |