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Home Dictionary Name: salt silverSalt silver
Salt silver, one penny paid at the feast day of St. Martin, by the tenants of some manors, as a commutation for the service of carrying their lord's salt from market to his larder, Paroch. Antiq. 496....
Silver certificate
A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount payable to the bearer on demand In the United States and its possessions it is issued against the deposit of silver coin and is not legal tender but is receivable for customs taxes and all public dues In the United States the redeemability in silver of silver certificates was discontinued in the 1970s they are still 1997 accepted as money at the face dollar value but cannot be redeemed in silver...
Free silver
The free coinage of silver often specif the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold as at the ratio of 16 to 1 which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively...
Silvering
The art or process of covering metals wood paper glass etc with a thin film of metallic silver or a substance resembling silver also the firm do laid on as the silvering of a glass speculum...
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver
Suit-silver, or Suter-silver, a small rent or sum of money paid in some manors to excuse the freeholders' appearance at the courts of their lord....
Saltness
The quality or state of being salt or state of being salt or impregnated with salt salt taste as the saltness of sea water...
Green silver
Green silver, a feudal custom in the manor of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a halfpenny yearly to the lord, by the name of 'green silver', Jac. Law Dict....
Bay salt
Salt which has been obtained from sea water by evaporation in shallow pits or basins by the heat of the sun the large crystalline salt of commerce...
Saltly
With taste of salt in a salt manner...
Salt duty in London
Salt duty in London, a custom in the City of London called granage, formerly payable to the Lord Mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part....
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