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silver

• 1 n. a color phase of the red fox, Vulpes ful, characterized by black fur having silvery-white guard hairs dispersed over the back, found rarely in nature but nowadays bred on fox farms.

  See also: silver fox   

  • 1771  (1792)  I went down the river, where I observed . . . a brace of silvers.
  • 1956  Those two little traps of mine had bagged a silver.

• 2 n. the fur of the silver fox.

  See also: silver-fox skin  

  • 1933  . . . he showed me a beautiful cross fox and a silver.
  • 1944  . . . there hung a trapper's dream in furs! Red foxes, cross foxes, silvers; marten and mink; otter; wolf and wolverine; bundles of weasel skins; and many others!