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Definition of 'silk'Noun
( en-noun)
(uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
- The silk thread was barely visible.
(uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
- I had a small square of silk , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
That which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
(colloquial) A Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
Derived terms
* make a silk purse of a sow's ear
* silken
( rel-mid3)
* silky
* silkweaver
* silkweaving
( rel-mid3)
* silkworm
* smooth as silk
* take silk
( rel-bottom)
See also
* sericin
Adjective
(-)
Made of .
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk -hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
Looking like silk, silken.
*{{quote-book|year=1963|author=(Margery Allingham)
|title=(The China Governess)
|chapter=2 citation
|passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
( en-verb)
To remove the silk from (corn).
* 2013 , Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came (page 17)
- While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes
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