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Same. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ll nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.

Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

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

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.

; to surrender. "We need not fear his coming in" Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come in till late." Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i…

A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid. Gower.

ve. -- French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Ure. -- French red rouge. -- French rice, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mix…

o called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .

To inhabit. [Obs.] In thilke places as they [birds] habiten. Rom. of R.

produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

e; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann.

ween cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

n from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing. -- Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. -- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.

To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak.

the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson. In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.