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Definition of Silversmith

1. Noun. Someone who makes or repairs articles of silver.

Definition of Silversmith

1. n. One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Definition of Silversmith

1. Noun. A person who makes articles out of silver usually larger than jewellery. ¹

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Definition of Silversmith

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silversmith

Literary usage of Silversmith

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"His advertisement as silversmith and engraver appears in the Boston Evening Post of June 24, 1745. While in Boston he engraved a copper-plate portrait of ..."

2. Journal by English Place-Name Society (1906)
"The Haven of Ross is barred, and alsoe very shallow, soe that ships may not adventure in. Notes and Queries. An Unrecorded Cork silversmith. ..."

3. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1896)
"... P. v., 158 B.,W., silversmith, P. iii., 245, 378, 433 (or WR ), 95 ; with gem ring above, a silversmith's mark, 125 ; inscribed on stone, from Back Row, ..."

4. The Panorama of Professions and Trades: Or Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen (1836)
"THE silversmith. 2. What are the most common subjects of manufacture by this artisan ? 3. How are dollars reduced to plates ? 4,5, 6, 7, 8,9,10. ..."

5. Journal by Bond & Share Society, New Hampshire Dental Society, American Wine Society, Manning Valley Historical Society (1904)
"Old Galway silversmith. BY ROBERT DAY. FSA OME thirty years ago I met with a silver chalice in Dublin having marks upon it which were unpublished, and, ..."

6. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1907)
"His requirements in the way of glasses, settings, and the like are so numerous that it is reasonable to suppose that our silversmith was dealing with a ..."

7. The Library of American Biography by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Jared Sparks (1845)
"Engages in the Business of a silversmith at Trenton in New Jersey, — His Shop and Prop- erty destroyed by the British. — Joins the Army at Valley Forge. ..."

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