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Definition of Desilver
1. v. t. To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
Definition of Desilver
1. Verb. to remove the silver from some alloy ¹
2. Verb. to remove the reflective backing from a mirror ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desilver
1. to remove the silver from [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desilver
Literary usage of Desilver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases on Domestic Relations: Leading and Select Cases on the Disabilities by Marshall Davis Ewell (1891)
"On the trial, after the counsel of the traversers had given in evidence the death
of Sarah desilver, a paper writing, purporting to be the last will and ..."
2. Ursula at Home by Harriet P. Roelofson Griffith (1897)
"I will take some more lemonade, after Mrs. DeSilver has had some more. ... Mrs.
DeSilver and Mrs. Eaton do not seem to be able to tell what they would like ..."
3. A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy by Charles T[homas] Harbeck (1906)
"T. desilver. 1816. 368 pp. Portraits. Plates. 12°. Same. ... T. desilver. 1818.
(2) xii, 367 pp. Portraits. Plates. 12°. History of the second war between ..."
4. Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society by Rhode Island Historical Society (1895)
"At Philadelphia, Justice Johnson was offered by desilver, the publisher, a mass
of original materials regarding Greene, from which a biography was at that ..."
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