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argentine, a. and n.|ˈɑːdʒəntaɪn|
[a. F. argentin, ad. L. argentīnus of silver.]
A. adj.
1. Of, made of, or containing silver.
1537W. Holme Fall Reb. 40 An antick deaurate with letters argentine. 1791Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 353 Argentine spicula were seen in the larger grains. 1849M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxiv. 224 The property of blackening argentine salts.
2. Silvery.
1578Lyte Dodoens 526 Argentine, or Siluer Thistel. 1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 251 Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man I. iii. 46 The meanest sounds that pampered mine ear have been argentine. 1859W. Gregory Egypt II. 35 The argentine raiment which the moon..had thrown over Karnak.
B. n.
1. Silver, or a material simulating it:
a. ? Wrought silver, silver filagree.
b. Imitation silver, electroplate.
c. The silvery lamellæ on the scales of fish, used in the manufacture of artificial pearls.
1577Holinshed Chron. III. 857/1 Images of sore and terrible countenances, all armed in curious worke of argentine. 1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. III. 972/1 The material which gives this metallic lustre to the scales of Fishes, known in commerce under the name of ‘Argentine.’ 1847Bachel. Albany (1854) 115 The argentine and albata did their best to look silvery.
2. Zool. A genus of small fishes, of the family Salmonidæ, with very silvery scales: see 1 c. Also applied by Pennant to the Scopelus Pennanti or Humboldtii, now called the Pearlside.
1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 432. 1854 Badham Halieut. 285 Shoals of argentine are consumed annually in this commerce.
†3. Herb. The Silver-weed (Potentilla anserina), Gerard, 1597; Withering. Argentine Thistle, the Cotton Thistle (Onopordium Acanthium) Lyte, 1578.
4. Min. Slate-spar (Humble Dict. Geol.).
1794Kirwan. 1868Dana Min. 678 Argentine..a pearly lamellar calcite..colour white, grayish, yellowish, or reddish. |