Word Meanings - TESTOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.

• Silverboom
  See Leucadendron.
• Silverweed
  A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• SILVERCERTIFICATE
  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 tender,
• Silverfin
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERGRAY
  Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• Silverfish
  The tarpum.
• SILVERITE
  One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]
• About-sledge
  The largest hammer used by smiths.
• Silver-gray
  Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• Sterling
  Same as Starling, 3.
• SILVERSTATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• Silveriness
  The state of being silvery.
• THIRTYSECOND
  Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
• Italianate
  To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize.
• Silverized
  of Silverize

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