silver oren.
An ore containing silver. dark red silver ore, pyrargyrite. light red silver ore, proustite.
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 16 Engelonde is vol inoȝ..Of seluer or & of gold.
c1325 Pol. Songs (Camden) 338 He fareth in a while as thouh he hadde silver ore.
c1350 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 150 Men þat soght for siluer ore, Within þe erth so gun þai crepe.
c1350 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 150 Oþer mynours þeder fore For to seke þam syluer ure.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 596 Mineria, a myne vel Ore.., as..syluer ore, etc.
1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 272 Many mynes of silver oures.
1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 2 The Metal which is digged from those Veins is called Oar, as Silver oar.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 257 The cobalt was last of all cut out below by silver ore.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 122 Red Silver Ore.—This species is denominated Red chiefly from the colour of its streak.
1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 177 Black Silver-Ore... Colour iron-black.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 417 Brittle Silver Ore, Lunites rhombicus.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 425 Flexible Silver Ore, Elasmites rhomboidens.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 414/1 Silver ores, properly so called, are very rare in England.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 443 I have roasted nearly four thousand tons of silver-ore during the past year.
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