Meaning of silvern | Babel Free

Definitions

Made of silver; resembling or characteristic of silver; silvery.

literary, not-comparable

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Examples

“But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find⟳ in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm⟳ is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie⟳.”

“I know⟳ a pool, where shadows fall⟳ From fir-trees, melancholy tall, That dream⟳ and quiver round the rim, And in the molten centre swim⟳, Where taper tops do all unite⟳ Bemirrored in its silvern light⟳.”

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