Word Meanings - SILVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Bethinking
  of Bethink
• BERINGSEACONTROVERSY
  A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court
• Belying
  of Belie
• Beccafico
  A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.
• Bezique
  A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.
• Bemuffle
  To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.
• Bedunged
  of Bedung
• Plated
  of Plate
• Bequeathed
  of Bequeath
• Begnawn
  of Begnaw
• White-pot
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
• Beslobber
  To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.
• Beady
  Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
• Betimes
  In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
• BETELNUT
  The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
• Belive
  Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
• Beclip
  To embrace; to surround.
• Callet
  A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
• Bend
  To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
• Beechy
  Of or relating to beeches.

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