in our old customs, silver coin, or pieces of bullion that anciently passed for money. By Doomsday tenure, some rents to the king were paid in argentum albo, common silver pieces of money; other rents in libris urbis et pontis, in metal of full weight and purity: in the next age, that rent which was paid in money, was called blanch fearn, and afterwards white rent; and what was paid in provisions, was termed black mail.

ARGENTUM Dei, God's penny, anciently signified earneft money, or money given to bind a bargain; in some places called erles, or arles, and by the civilians and canonists, arrhes. Et cepit de praedio Henrico tres annarios de argentis Dei praे manibus.

ARGENTUM Myrhum is a mass consisting of silver-like flakes, used for the colouring of platter figures, and for other purposes, as pigment. It consists of an amalgam of equal parts of tin, bismuth, and mercury. It is to be mixed with white of eggs, or spirit varnish, and then applied to the intended work, which is afterwards to be burnished.

ARGENTUM Vivum, Mercury or Quicksilver. See Mercury, and Chemistry-Index.