silver chain (silver chan)

The common locust-tree, Robinia Pseud acacia: imitated from golden chain, a name of the laburnum. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names. silver-cloud (silver-kloud), n. A British moth, Xylomiges cons pic ill aris. silver-duckwing (sil'ver-duk"wing), a. Noting beautiful of the exhibition game and damaging books, wall-paper, etc. See Le pisma. Also called walking - fish, bristletail, fish tail, furniture - bug, silver - moth, silver - witch, shin er, and silvertail. silver-foil (silver-foil), n. Silver beaten thin. silver-gilt (silver-gilt), n. 1. Silver covered with gilding; also, gilded articles of silver. - 2. A close imitation of real gilding, made by applying silver-leaf, burnishing the surface, and then coating with a transparent yellow lacquer. silver-glance (silver-glans'), n. Native silver sulphid. See argentite . silver-grain (silver-grān), n. In bot ., the shin- ing plates of parenchymatous ti ue (medul- lary rays) seen in the stems of exogenous wood when these stems are cut in a longitudinal radial direction. They are the little light-colored or bright bands that give to rock-maple, quartered oak, and the like their chief beauty, and make them prized in cab i- net-work. See medullary rays , under medullary . guitariety of team silver-gra (silver-grås), n. 1. See Phalaris. howing the cock has silvery white neck and back, alving bow, metallic-blue bar, and white bay on secondaries, black breast, under parts, and tail. The hen is of a deli cately penciled ashen gray, with darker tail, black-striped 2. A variety of a multiform species of meadow gra , Poa cæspitosa, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. and salmon breast. The legs are and the eyes red. The yellow or golden-duckwing fowl is of similar coloration, but with yellow or orange of different shades in place of the silver or white. silver-eel (silver-ēl), n. 1. The saber-fish or cutlas-fish, Trichiurus lepturus. Also called sil very hairtail. [Texas.] -2. The common eel, when noticeably pale or silvery.