silk.html - n.
1 a fine strong soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons.
2 a similar fibre spun by some spiders etc.
3 thread or cloth made from silk fibre.
4 (in pl.) kinds of silk cloth or garments made from it, esp. as worn by a jockey in a horse-owner's colours.
5 Brit. colloq. Queen's (or King's) Counsel, as having the right to wear a silk gown.
6 (attrib.) made of silk (silk blouse).
7 the silky styles of the female maize-flower.

silk cotton kapok or a similar substance. silk-fowl a breed of fowl with a silky plumage. silk-gland a gland secreting the substance produced as silk. silk hat a tall cylindrical hat covered with silk plush. silk moth any of various large moths of the family Saturniidae, esp. Hyalophora cecropia. silk-screen printing = screen printing. take silk Brit. become a Queen's (or King's) Counsel.

silklike adj. [OE sioloc, seolec (cf. ON silki) f. LL sericum neut. of L sericus f. seres f. Gk Seres an oriental people]

silk.html - adj.
1 made of silk.
2 wearing silk.
3 soft or lustrous as silk.
4 (of a person's manner etc.) suave or insinuating. [OE seolcen (as SILK)]

silk.html - n.
the caterpillar of the moth Bombyx mori, which spins its cocoon of silk.

silk.html - adj.
(silkier, silkiest)
1 like silk in smoothness, softness, fineness, or lustre.
2 (of a person's manner etc.) suave, insinuating.

silkily adv. silkiness n.

silk.html - If you say nothing or do not say no to something, it means that you agree. - A proverb. * /Don't be afraid to say, if you don't like something. Silence gives consent./

silk.html - {n.}, {informal} The large majority of people who, unlike the militants, do not make their political and social views known by marching and demonstrating and who, presumably, can swing an election one way or the other. * /Sidney Miltner is a member of the silent majority./