Word Meanings - PORRINGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.

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• PORRINGER
  A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• PORRIDGE
  A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. (more info) by OE. porree a kind of pottage,
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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,
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SILVER CERTIFICATE
  A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal
• SILVERITE
  One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary
• SILVERY
  1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope. 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• SILVERN
  Made of silver. Wyclif . Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.
• SILVERBILL
  An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.
• SILVERBOOM
  See LEUCADENDRON
• SILVERINESS
  The state of being silvery.
• SILVERSPOT
  Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.
• SILVERSIDES
  Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
• 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.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKSILVERING
  The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• DESILVER
  To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.