argental

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

argental (not comparable)

  1. Of silver.
    • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
      After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

Derived terms
  • argental gold
  • argental mercury
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