v. [f. BE- 1 + SILVER v.] trans. To silver over, to cover or line with silver; also fig. Hence Besilvered ppl. a.

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1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr’s S. P. (1847), 61. Many streams his banks besilvered.

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1749.  G. West, trans. Pindar, 1st Olympick Ode, 11–2 (R.).

        Near the Billow-beaten Side
  Of the foam besilver’d Main.

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1800.  W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 330. Yet how well he amalgamates and besilvers all!

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1825.  Blackw. Mag., XVIII. 436. The moon-besilver’d casements guided us.

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1864.  R. Burton, Dahome, II. 33. Wives and Amazons, copiously besilvered.

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