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Free-milling :: Free-milling (a.) Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment..

Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. i.) To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver..

Silver :: Silver (a.) Precious; costly.

Irredeemable :: Irredeemable (a.) Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder..

Bullion :: Bullion (n.) Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..

Iridium :: Iridium (n.) A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5..

Paul :: Paul (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

Sternebrae :: Sternbergite (n.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black..

Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury..

Magistral :: Magistral (n.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America..

Lav/sium :: Lav/sium (n.) A supposed new metallic element. It is said to have been discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a silver-white color, and malleable..

Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

Argentry :: Argentry (n.) Silver plate or vessels.

Percesoces :: Percesoces (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes..

Groat :: Groat (n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence..

Silver :: Silver (n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.

Silver-gray :: Silver-gray (a.) Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair..

Pyrargyrite :: Pyrargyrite (n.) Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster..

Silverling :: Silverling (n.) A small silver coin.

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