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单词 silver wire
释义 silver wire
Also silver-wire.
[silver n.]
Wire made from silver. Also with a and pl.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 565 Argentifilum, sylver wyre.1728Chambers Cycl., Silver-Wire, is Silver drawn thro' the Holes of a Wire-drawing-Iron, and by this Means reduced to the Fineness of a Thread or Hair.1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 21/2 When leaf-silver or fine silver-wire is heated by voltaic electricity, it burns with a fine green flame.1879Encycl. Brit. X. 754/1 The..silver wire being, of course, composed of pure silver.1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 728/2 A porous jar..surrounded by a silver wire.
attrib.1849Noad Electricity 203 Chloride of silver..decomposed by silver-wire poles.1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 617 A portion was then removed from the middle line, and the edges united again by silver-wire sutures.
Hence silver-wiry a.
1891Hardy Tess (1900) 9/2 Elderly women.., their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces.
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