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silvered, ppl. a.|ˈsɪlvəd| [f. silver v. + -ed2.] 1. Coated with silver or silver-foil; also of mirrors, glass, etc., backed with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
c1481Caxton Dialogues 21 Thinges silverid. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones ii. 183 The siluered scepter of peace is offered vnto us. 1674Moxon Tutor Astron. (ed. 3) 206 Place the Golden Ball representing the Sun, and the Silvered {moonlq} representing the {moonlq} in two opposite points of the Ecliptick. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxv. (1737) 109 The Silver'd Knight took the Golden Warden. 1774C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 157 In the middle..is fixed a piece of silvered-glass. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 185 The common reflector is only a silvered back burnished. 1840Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxi. 255 There were a number of gilded and silvered shields. 1881Trans. Obstet. Soc. XXII. 125 It was..secured by a stout silvered-copper wire. b. Photogr. Treated with a silver solution.
1890Anthony's Phot. Bulletin III. 407 Not permanent prints,..but on silvered paper, which were tedious to get in dull weather. 2. Suffused with silver lustre; silver-coloured; whitened with age; silver-haired.
c1600Ballad Spanish Trag. i. 15 in Kyd's Wks. (1901) 343 Vntill that age with siluered haires My aged head had ouer⁓spred. 1620T. Peyton Glass of Time i. 50 The dores thereof of siluer'd Pearle most white. 1622Drayton Polyolb. xxvi. 260 Not Ancum's silvered Eel exceedeth that of Trent. c1743Francis tr. Horace, Sec. Poem 169 Indulge the waning Days Of silver'd Age with placid Ease. 1792A. Young Trav. in France 20 The amazing frame of the Pyrenees, rearing their silvered head far above the clouds. 1853M. Arnold Scholar Gypsy xxii, Brushing through, By night, the silver'd branches of the glade. 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 41 The thinly silvered scalp of weak old age. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. v, That love-dream on the dear silvered sands. †3. Of sounds: Sweet- or silver-toned. Obs.—1
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. App. 66 If an Harper harped in the Moon, His silvered sound would touch our tickled ear. |