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Webster 1913 Edition
Argentine
Ar′gen-tine
(?; in the 2d sense, commonly ?)
, Adj.
1.
Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
Celestial Dian, goddess
argentine
. Shakespeare
2.
Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.
Ar′gen-tine
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
argentin
, fr. L. argentum
silver.] 1.
(Min.)
A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
2.
White metal coated with silver.
Simmonds.
3.
(Zool.)
A fish of Europe (
Maurolicus Pennantii
) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina
. 4.
A citizen of the Argentine Republic; an Argentinian.