| a. | 1. | Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. | |||
| 2. | Besprinkled or covered with silver. | ||||
| 3. | Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound;
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| Adj. | 1. | silvery - lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair" |
| 2. | silvery - resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" Synonyms: silvern | |
| 3. | silvery - having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" |
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