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silvering

[ sil-ver-ing ]

/ ˈsɪl vər ɪŋ /

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noun

the act or process of coating with silver or a substance resembling silver.

the coating thus applied: the silvering of the mirror.

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Origin of silvering

First recorded in 1700–10; silver + -ing¹

Words nearby silvering

silver goal, silver gray, silver hake, silver halide, silverhorn, silvering, silver iodate, silver iodide, Silverius, silverize, silver jenny

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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 1851|Various
Then 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-Blowing|Bernard D. Bolas
The silvering being finished, the sheets are dipped along two parallel edges in 75 per cent nitric acid.
On Laboratory Arts|Richard Threlfall
And here and there, silvering the bushes, the elder offered its snowy tribute to the summer.
Eugene Aram, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Presently through the trees they saw the moonlight silvering the placid water.
The New Boys at Oakdale|Morgan Scott