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- English Word Silly Definition Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
- English Word Sillyhow Definition A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
- English Word Silo Definition A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
- English Word Silt Definition Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- English Word Silt Definition To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
- English Word Silt Definition To flow through crevices; to percolate.
- English Word Silted Definition of Silt
- English Word Silting Definition of Silt
- English Word Silty Definition Full of silt; resembling silt.
- English Word Silure Definition A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
- English Word Silurian Definition Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
- English Word Silurian Definition The Silurian age.
- English Word Siluridan Definition Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.
- English Word Siluroid Definition Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe.
- English Word Siluroid Definition A siluroid fish.
- English Word Siluroidei Definition An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.
- English Word Silurus Definition A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.
- English Word Silva Definition The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
- English Word Silva Definition A description or history of the forest trees of a country.
- English Word Silvae Definition of Silva
- English Word Silvan Definition Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
- English Word Silvan Definition See Sylvanium.
- English Word Silvanite Definition See Sylvanite.
- English Word Silvas Definition of Silva
- English Word Silvas Definition Alt. of Selvas
- English Word Silvate Definition Same as Sylvate.
- English Word Silver Definition A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
- English Word Silver Definition Coin made of silver; silver money.
- English Word Silver Definition Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
- English Word Silver Definition The color of silver.