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SILK'INESS, n. 1. The qualities of silk; softness and smoothness to the feel. 2....
SILKEN, a. silk'n. 1. Made of silk; as silken cloth; a silken vail. 2. Like silk...
SILK, n. 1. The fine soft thread produced by the insect called silk-worm or bomb...
SILISIA, n. sile'zha. A duchy or country now chiefly belonging to Prussia; hence...
SIL'IQUOSE, SIL'IQUOUS, n. [L. siliquosus.] Having that species of pericarp call...
SIL'IQUOSE, SIL'IQUOUS, n. [L. siliquosus.] Having that species of pericarp call...
SIL'IQUA, SILIQUE, n. [L. siliqua.] A pod; an oblong, membranaceous, bivalvular ...
SIL'IQUA, n. [L.] With gold finers, a carat, six of which make a scruple.
SIL'ING-DISH, n. A colander. [Not in use.]
SILIC'ULOUS, a. Havin silicles or little pods, or pertaining to them.
SIL'ICE,SIL'ICULE, SIL'ICLE, n. [L. silicula, a little husk.] In botany, a littl...
SILICIUM, n. The undecomposed and perhaps undecomposable base of silex or silica.
SILIC'ITED, a. Impregnated with silex.
SILI'CIOUS, a. Pertaining to silex, or partaking of its nature and qualities.
SILICIMU'RITE, n. An earth composed of silex and magnesia.
SIL'ICIFY, v. t. [L. silex, flint, and facio, to make.] To convert into silex. T...