Thesaurus / silvering
FEEDBACKsynonyms for silvering
synonyms for silvering
- bleach
- blanch
- blench
- chalk
- decolor
- decolorize
- dull
- etiolate
- fade
- frost
- grizzle
- lighten
- pale
- silver
- white
- whitewash
- turn pale
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How to use silvering in a sentence
If you dip a gold ring or a sovereign into quicksilver, it will be silvered by it, and the silvering will not come off.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE VOL. IV, NO. 19, DEC 1851VARIOUSThen mix both liquids together in the silvering vessel and suspend the glass to be silvered face downwards in the solution.
A HANDBOOK OF LABORATORY GLASS-BLOWINGBERNARD D. BOLASThe silvering being finished, the sheets are dipped along two parallel edges in 75 per cent nitric acid.
ON LABORATORY ARTSRICHARD THRELFALLAnd here and there, silvering the bushes, the elder offered its snowy tribute to the summer.
EUGENE ARAM, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONPresently through the trees they saw the moonlight silvering the placid water.
THE NEW BOYS AT OAKDALEMORGAN SCOTTA thin crescent moon was out, silvering the river and the trees.
THE FIREFLY OF FRANCEMARION POLK ANGELLOTTIIt is chiefly used in the extraction of gold and silver from their ores (amalgamation); for silvering mirrors, &c.
A TEXTBOOK OF ASSAYING: FOR THE USE OF THOSE CONNECTED WITH MINES.CORNELIUS BERINGER AND JOHN JACOB BERINGERBakkus laughed, passing his hand over his silvering locks; but Elodie looked very serious.
THE MOUNTEBANKWILLIAM J. LOCKEA tiny moon glittered sparkling overhead, and silvering the snowy ground.
KATE DANTON, OR, CAPTAIN DANTON'S DAUGHTERSMAY AGNES FLEMINGThe silvering of plane mirrors consists in applying a layer of tin-foil alloyed with mercury to their posterior surface.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW URE