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 I.  noun 
 Usage: often attributive see:  sericeous  Date: before 12th century a fine continuous protein fiber produced by various insect larvae usually for cocoons, thread, yarn, or fabric made from silk filaments, 
 
 3. a garment of silk, b. a distinctive silk gown worn by a King's or Queen's Counsel, a King's or Queen's Counsel, the colored cap and blouse of a jockey or harness horse driver made in the registered racing color of the employing stable, 
 
 4. a filament resembling silk, silky material ,  parachute  , silklike  adjective 
 
 II. intransitive  verb 
 Date: 1783
 to develop the silk

 silk cotton 
  noun 
 Date: 1697
 the silky or cottony covering of seeds of various silk-cotton trees

 silk gland 
  noun 
 Date: 1870
 a gland that produces a viscid fluid which is extruded in filaments and hardens into silk on exposure to air: as, either of a pair of greatly enlarged and modified salivary glands of an insect larva that produce a compound filament from which a larval or pupal cover (as a cocoon) is spun, any of two or more abdominal glands of a spider that open through spinnerets and produce a filament used chiefly in the spinning of webs

 silk hat 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1836
 a hat with a tall cylindrical crown and a silk-plush finish worn by men as a dress hat

 silk moth 
  noun 
 Date: 1772
 the common silkworm ( Bombyx mori ),  saturniid  

 silk oak 
  noun 
 Date: 1866
 any of various Australian timber trees (especially genus  Grevillea ) of the protea family that have mottled wood used in cabinetmaking and veneering

 silk road 
  noun 
 Date: 1931
 the ancient trade route that extended from China to the Mediterranean Sea

 silk screen 
  noun 
 Date: 1930
 a stencil process in which coloring matter is forced onto the material to be printed through the meshes of a silk or organdy screen so prepared as to have pervious printing areas and impervious nonprinting areas, silk-screen transitive  verb 

 silk stocking 
  noun 
 Date: 1836
 an aristocratic or wealthy person, a fashionably dressed person,  federalist  2

 silk tree 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1852
 a leguminous Asian tree ( Albizia julibrissin ) naturalized especially in the southeastern United States and having pink flowers with long silky stamens