Definition of "silvern" [sil•vern]

• Composed of silver. (adjective)
• Resembling silver; silvery. (adjective)

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• "One of the few rational things I have met with, Eleanor, in the works of your very objectionable pet Mr. Carlyle -- though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much -- is the remark that 'speech is silver' -- 'silvern' he calls it, pedantically -- 'while silence is golden.'""
• "In the night, the sea colored, I had a split silvern mermaid tail beneath the sea blue in waves' crests and in foam."
• "At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands."