SILKEN

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.

2.
a.

Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise." Shak.

3.
a.

Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." Shak.

4.
v.

To render silken or silklike. Dyer.

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