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argent, n. and a.|ˈɑːdʒənt|
[a. F. argent, ad. L. argentum white money, silver.]
A. n.
1. The metal silver. arch. or poet. spume of argent (L. argenti spuma): litharge of silver.
[c1485E.E. Misc. (1855) 3 The flore schold be of argentum, Clene sylver alle and sume.] c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 252 It semed well to be of argent; that is to say, syluer. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 51 They doo mingle therwithall The spume of argent. 1790Cowper Iliad ii. 55 His argent-studded sword. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. i. lxvii, Clouds of gold and argent. [See also C.]
†2. Silver coin; hence gen. money, cash. Obs.
c1500Partenay 1119 Euery day had ther money and argent. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. 52 Whether they haue Argente, to mayntaine this geare. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) To Hon. O'Toole Wks. ii. 18/2 Some hound-like senting sergeant..tires him out for argeant. 1742Bailey, Argent, Silver or Coin.
3. Her. The silver of a coat of arms; the silver or white colour in armorial bearings.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 4 Called Siluer, and blased by the name of Argent. 1628Earle Microcosm. lxviii. 146 Whole fields of gold and silver, or and argent. 1751Chambers Cycl., Argent is expressed, in engraving, by the parts being left plain, without any strokes from the graver.
B. adj. Of, or resembling, silver; silvery white.
c1590Marlowe Massac. Paris i. vi, The argent crosses in your burgonets. 1600Fairfax Tasso xiv. (R.) The azure skie, With argent beames of siluer morning spred. 1850H. Coleridge Poems II. 161 In the full brightness of the argent moon.
b. esp. in Her. Cf. A 3.
1591Harington Ariosto's Orl. Fur. xxxvi. xxviii, The argent Eagle that he bare. 1681Jordan London's Joy in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 541 He bears a Target Azure with a Saltier argent. 1814Southey Roderick xviii, Within that argent field Thou saw'st the rampant Lion.
C. Comb., as argent-clear, argent-horned, argent-lidded; † argent-content (F. argent comptant), ready money; argent-vive, q.v.
1842Longfellow Sp. Stud. ii. x. viii, Thou moon that shinest Argent-clear above! 1649Lovelace Poems 151 The Argent-horned Moone. 1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. 135 Serene with argent-lidded eyes. 1536Bellendene Cron. Scot. xiii. v. (Jam.) Ane hundredth thousand poundis..the tane half to be payit with argent content. |