silver-white, a. and n.
[silver n.]
A. adj. Of a silvery whiteness.
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 905 Ladie-smockes all siluer white. 1715 Rowe Lady Jane Grey iv. i, Say thou, whose Head is grown thus Silver White. 1810 Crabbe Borough xiii. 31 His hair all silver-white, Shaking and shining. 1864 Skeat tr. Uhland's Poems 2 Buoyed on clouds all silver-white. |
B. n.
1. local. The white trout or finnoc.
| 1834 Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 51 This fish I consider to be..the Silver White of the Tweed tacksmen. 1882 Day Fishes Gt. Brit. II. 85 White-salmon..is locally known as..whiting, phinock, moudie-trout, silverwhite. |
2. A pure white lead used by artists; Chinese white.
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2772/1 Kremnitz white, krems white, and silver white are synonyms of white-lead. |