silvery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: silvery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for silvery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
silvery adj resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" Synonym(s): silvern, silvery 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" Synonym(s): silver, silvern, silvery of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair" Synonym(s): argent, silver, silvery, silverish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Silvery \Sil"very\, a. 1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery* wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. --Pope. 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh. {Silvery iron} (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore.