silver

1. silver (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.

2. silver (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

Example: […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

3. silver (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

4. silver (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Made from silver.

Example: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

5. silver (adj) — sense 5

Definition: Made from another white metal.

6. silver (adj) — sense 6

Definition: Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.

7. silver (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To acquire a silvery colour.

Example: Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...]

8. silver (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.

Example: to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury

9. silver (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.

Example: For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep.