Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Carrying silver arrows: an epithet of Diana.
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Examples
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There was moss here, there were lichened heather-roots, rowan bushes, and a ring of slim birches, silver-shafted, feather - crowned and light; more than all there was a little pool of water which two rills fed.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair," etc. 442. ~silver-shafted queen~.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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