silky.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.

silky.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]

silky.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)]

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

silky.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.

silky.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./