silk
IPA: sˈɪɫk
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
- A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
- Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.
- The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
- (colloquial) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
- (circus arts, in the plural) A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
- (horse racing, usually in the plural) The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of silk.
verb
- (transitive) To remove the silk from (corn).
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Examples of "silk" in Sentences
- They embed the silk into the materials.
- Plus a minion to deal with the silk chiffon.
- The same blue silk was used for the drapery fabric.
- Chiffon is made from cotton, silk or synthetic fibers.
- It is made of silk, leather, sequins, and rhinestones.
- A nightgown is typically made from cotton, silk, satin, or nylon.
- The locals produce the silk, the wool and the cotton fabric themselves.
- They transferred me to what they called the silk mill of the same company.
- Mohair is a silk like fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat.
- Gowns are often made of a luxury fabric such as chiffon, velvet, satin, or silk.
- _polytricum commune_, or great golden maidenhair, which they call silk - wood, and find plenty in the bogs.
- There are two kinds of silk (1) _raw silk_ (reeled silk, thrown silk, drawn silk), and (2) _waste silk_ or spun silk.
- _A cotton and silk umbrella_ means one umbrella partly cotton and partly silk; _cotton_ and _silk_ modify the same noun -- _umbrella_.
- Imperialis flava to be dressed in silk from the Flowery Land – that robe of imperial yellow which only General Gordon and the blood royal of
- Therefore, in order to be fair to the buyer who purchases his material by weight, they have in all great silk centres what they call silk-conditioning houses, where they test the goods to find out how much water is in it.
- They disclaim, however, all desire of employing compulsory measures for that purpose, but recommended every mode of encouragement, and particularly by augmented wages, "_in order to induce manufacturers of wrought silk to quit that branch and take to the winding of raw silk_."
- GRATTAN said of Hussey Burgh, who had been a great Liberal, but, on getting his silk gown, became a Ministerialist, that all men knew silk to be a non-conducting body, and that since the honorable member had been enveloped _in silk_, no spark of _patriotism_ had reached his heart.
- As the Oxford statutes have recently been published, the matter is not so much in the dark, -- black silk being the material prescribed for the lining of hoods of Doctors in Divinity, and those of the doctors in the other faculties being prescribed to be of _silk of any intermediate colour_, which the Oxford doctors understand to mean a deep rose-colour.
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