silvern

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silvern - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Silvern \Sil"vern\, a. [AS. seolfern, sylfren.]
     Made of silver. [Archaic.] --Wyclif (Acts xix. 24).
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           Speech is silvern; silence is golden.    --Old Proverb.
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silvern - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  silvern
      adj 1: resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern
             voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" [syn: silvern,
             silvery]
      2: having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver
         (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated
         scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" [syn:
         silver, silvern, silvery]