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silver point Examples noun
- the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
Examples from the Web for silver point Historical Examples of silver point
He drew with silver-point and charcoal upon parchment and prepared cedar.
Oscar Wilde
Lead point.One of these was the silver-point or lead-point, very much like the metallic pencil of a modern pocket-book.
Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times
J. Henry Middleton
Similar to lead pencil, and of even greater delicacy, is silver-point drawing.
The Practice and Science Of Drawing
Harold Speed
The discipline of silver-point drawing is to be recommended as a corrective to the picturesque vagaries of charcoal work.
The Practice and Science Of Drawing
Harold Speed
It is now in the Berlin Museum, and contains eighty-five drawings in silver-point, finished with pen and ink.
Henry Bryan Binns