silver point

American  

noun

1. the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.

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Example Sentences

Then they will inspect Leonardo’s tools — red chalk, ink and silver point — and use their own versions to create imaginative art.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2014

The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music —passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions.

From Time Magazine Archive

For pure line drawing nothing equals it, except silver point, and great draughtsmen, like Ingres, have always loved it.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

The world had grown more solemn now: here and there in the lilac-gray deeps overhead a small silver point began to appear.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

A more ancient method, it consists in drawing with a silver point on paper the surface of which has been treated with a faint wash of Chinese white.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold