Word Meanings - ARGENTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

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• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• ARGENTRY
  Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• SILVER
  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,
• FROST-BITTEN
  Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
• FROSTILY
  In a frosty manner.
• FROSTING
  1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• FROSTWORK
  The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• FROSTFISH
  The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish.
• FROSTLESS
  Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• FROSTY
  1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night. 2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. 3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson. 4. Appearing as if
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• FREE SILVER
  The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
• REP-SILVER
  Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.