51吃瓜

Advertisement

Advertisement

horn silver

noun

Mineralogy.


horn silver

noun

  1. another name for chloroargyrite
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥� Complete & Unabridged鈥� 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

51吃瓜 History and Origins

Origin of horn silver1

1760鈥�70; translation of German Hornsilber
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

He soon joined up with his brother, Chuck Kremin, and house painter Herb Robbins, to start buying buildings around the old silver-mining town, which was originally settled in the 1880s and first called Lime Point and then Horn Silver before folks settled on Gold Point.

From

Below us, as we walk on the terrace, lies the Golden Horn, silver in the starlight, and across its waters the city of Stamboul stands dim, forlorn, and lovely.

From

It runs three hundred dollars to the ton in horn silver, and looks more like jewels than mineral.

From

In the Horn silver mine, of Utah, the zinc mingled with the silver ore is betrayed by the abundance of the zinc violet, a delicate and beautiful cousin of the pansy.

From

Fragments of horn silver lay scattered among the cactus and dagger-plants in the bed of the dry wash.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement