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- Silken - a. - Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
- Silken - a. - Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
- Silken - a. - Dressed in silk.
- Silken - v. t. - To render silken or silklike.
- Silkensides - n. - Same as Slickensides.
- Spider's web - - The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
- Kin - n. - A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
- Silken - a. - Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
- Silken - a. - Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
- String - n. - A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
- Bag - n. - A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
- Silken - v. t. - To render silken or silklike.
- Promethea - n. - A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.
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