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The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

he action of bromine on fluoresceïn, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

nd that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

aritable purpose. -- Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. -- Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylind…

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).

To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak.

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.