Word Finder - silk

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A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).

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The thread made of silk was barely visible.

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A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.

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Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.

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The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.

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A Senior (i.e. Queen's or King's) Counsel.

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(circus arts, in the plural) A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.

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(usually in the plural) The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.

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To remove the silk from (corn).

She wore silk pajamas and a woolen sweater.

She wore white slacks, an emerald-green silk blouse and high-heeled shoes.

Silk.The silk industry occupied f34,000 hands in 1901.

Silk Buckingham, and he was a regular contributor for the rest of his life.

Made of material softer than silk, the black dress she wore pooled at the top of her feet.

The bed was the largest she'd ever seen, with a finely spun silk bedspread of pale yellow.

They stood in front of an airy, light tent resembling a silk sheet suspended in midair over a table.

She had long blonde hair like spun silk, a perfectly proportioned figure and blue-green eyes that made you feel you were looking into the sea.

He wore black jeans, a dark gray Versace silk sport shirt with the cuffs rolled up, and a pair of A. Testoni loafers.

She wore a silk blouse, Jimmy Choo's and a pencil skirt with a slit up the side, which gave just a glimpse of leg that went on forever.

As the powers of the telescope were gradually developed, it was found that the finest hairs or filaments of silk, or the thinnest silver wires that could be drawn, were much too thick for the refined purposes of the astronomer, as p p they entirely obliterated the image of a star in the more powerful telescopes.

The silk fabrics of France hold the first place, particularly the more expensive kinds.

A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear.

Their bodies were slick with sweat, and she lingered in the afterglow, lost in the heat and silk of his skin.

Jealous. She never used silk with me.

Its material may be linen, wool, cotton or silk; but silk only is the rule for deacons.

The industries of the town include manufactures of cotton, silk, earthenware, machinery and tobacco, with brass and iron founding; while slate and stone are quarried, and there are coal, iron and lead mines in the neighbourhood.

Up comes the cotton, down goes the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

No doubt the bird had mistaken the purple silk for something good to eat.

Gold and silk embroidery, filigree work, morocco and richly-braided jackets are produced for home use and for sale in Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro.

The chief industrial establishments are a large ammunition factory and an engine factory; but manufactures of cotton, silk, velvet, pottery and paper, sugar-refining and tanning are also extensively carried on.

It was muted black, made out of material smoother than silk that draped over her arm like a second skin.

There were no traditional decorations such as pictures or mirrors on the walls, but colorful cords and streams of what might have been silk edging the corners and dangling from high ceilings.

His high-water trousers exposed black silk socks with little ladders up the sides, held in place with garters, something Dean hadn't seen in decades.

In the earliest the conductor was represented by long metal wires, supported by silk or other insulating material, and left to pick up the air's potential.

At an early date Hastings was placed in charge of an aurang or factory in the interior, where his duties would be to superintend the weaving of silk and cotton goods under a system of money advances.

The micrometer of Auzout and Picard was provided with silk fibres or silver wires instead of the edges of Gascoigne, but one of the silk fibres remained fixed while the other was moved by a screw.

Meanwhile he had been appointed physician advising on the establishment of a silk factory.

The hilly regions of Limousin, Prigord and the Cvennes are the home of the chestnut, which in some places is still a staple food; walnuts grow on the lower levels of the central plateau and in lower Dauphin and Provence, figs and almonds in Provence, oranges and citrons on the Mediterranean coast, apricots in central France, the olive in Provcnce and the lower valleys of the Rhneand Durancc. Truffles arc found under Silk Cocoons.

Amongst exports manufactured goods (silk, cotton and woollen goods, fancy wares, apparel, &c.) come before raw materials and articles of food (wine and dairy products bought chiefly by England).

He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.

St Rambert, in the arrondissement of Belley, besides being of industrial importance for its manufactures of silk and paper, possesses the remains of a Benedictine abbey, powerful in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

There is trade in walnuts, walnut-oil, silk, cattle, &c.

In 1890 General Maclean, the British consul-general, reported that there were 650 silk, 40 carpet and 320 shawl looms at work.

The carpet-looms at work now number several hundreds, while looms of silk and shawl number less than half what they did in 1890.

With France there is a large traffic in wines, spirits, silk, fruit, vegetables and general provisions.

Its industries include cotton-spinning, brewing, distilling, and the manufacture of tobacco, earthenware and matches; native industry produces carved and inlaid furniture, bronzes and artistic metalwork, silk embroidery, &c. Hanoi is the junction of railways to Hai-Phong, its seaport, Lao-Kay, Vinh, and the Chinese frontier via Lang-Son.

There are also tanneries, dye-works and manufactures of silk, linen and woollen fabrics, leather and starch.

The larva makes a globular case of .sand stuck together with fine silk spun, it is said, from a slender spinneret at the posterior end of the body.

Gold-working, the making of arms and musical instruments, wood-carving, cotton, silk and gold thread weaving are of importance.

It contains breweries, tanneries, sugar, tobacco, cloth, and silk factories, and exports skins, cloth, cocoons, cereals, attar of roses, "dried fruit, &c. Sofia forms the centre of a railway system radiating to Constantinople (300 m.), Belgrade (206 m.) and central Europe, Varna, Rustchuk and the Danube, and Kiustendil near the Macedonian frontier.

Altogether raw silk and silk yarn to an annual value exceeding 1-1 millions sterling are exported from Russia.

Next after cottons come woollens, silk, cloth, chemicals, machinery, paper, furniture, hats, cement, leather, glass and china and other products.

The silk-mills employ silk obtained from the Caucasus, Italy and France.

It is supposed to be the Camanes of Ptolemy, and was formerly a very flourishing city, the seat of an extensive trade, and celebrated for its manufactures of silk, chintz and gold stuffs; but owing principally to the gradually increasing difficulty of access by water, owing to the silting up of the gulf, its commerce has long since fallen away, and the town has become poor and dilapidated.

Among the borough's manufactures are stoves and furnaces, malt liquors and silk.

The industries of the town include cotton spinning and weaving, silk spinning, the manufacture of tobacco, ropes, metal-ware, furniture, &c. The market gardens of the neighbourhood are famous, and there is a considerable shipping trade by the river and the Ludwigskanal.

The cultivation of silk cocoons, formerly a flourishing industry, has greatly declined in recent years, but efforts are now being made to revive it.

Owing to its excellent harbour Baku is a chief depot for merchandise coming from Persia and Transcaspia - raw cotton, silk, rice, wine, fish, dried fruit and timber - and for Russian manufactured goods.