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silvery

adj
/ˈsɪlvəɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.

  1. inherited from silvery

Definitions

  1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.

    • OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
    • Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
    • A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.

  2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.

  3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver

    Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

    • a silvery laugh
    • The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.

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Derived

silverily, silveriness, silvery acacia, silvery-cheeked antshrike, silvery flying fox, silvery gade, silvery gibbon, silvery gull, silvery-haired, silvery hair-grass, silvery hair-tail, silvery honeysuckle, silvery marmoset, silvery oak, silvery pomfret, silvery pout, silvery salmon, silvery sedge, silvery shrew mole, silvery-tongued, silvery-white

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at silvery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01silvery02color03visible04seen05saw06metal07glass08soda09sodium

A definitional loop anchored at silvery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at silvery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA