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A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. [Obs.] Beck (Draper's Dict.).

partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron.

A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.

A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin.

A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.

being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens. [Eng.]

ive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster. -- Mer`cer*i*za"tion (#), n.

The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]

A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin.

Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts. "Milch camels." Gen. xxxii. "Milch kine." Shak.

Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

A bale of raw silk.

A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.

The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.

of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. [Obs.] "White as morne milk." Chaucer.