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- English Word Silkensides Definition Same as Slickensides.
- English Word Silkiness Definition The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
- English Word Silkiness Definition Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.
- English Word Silkman Definition A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.
- English Word Silkmen Definition of Silkman
- English Word Silkness Definition Silkiness.
- English Word Silkweed Definition Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
- English Word Silkworm Definition The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
- English Word Silky Definition Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
- English Word Silky Definition Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
- English Word Silky Definition Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
- English Word Sill Definition The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
- English Word Sill Definition The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
- English Word Sill Definition The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
- English Word Sill Definition The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
- English Word Sill Definition A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- English Word Sill Definition The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- English Word Sill Definition A young herring.
- English Word Sillabub Definition A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.
- English Word Siller Definition Silver.
- English Word Sillily Definition In a silly manner; foolishly.
- English Word Sillimanite Definition Same as Fibrolite.
- English Word Silliness Definition The quality or state of being silly.
- English Word Sillock Definition The pollock, or coalfish.
- English Word Sillon Definition A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
- English Word Silly Definition Happy; fortunate; blessed.
- English Word Silly Definition Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
- English Word Silly Definition Weak; helpless; frail.
- English Word Silly Definition Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
- English Word Silly Definition Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.