Silky: Definition and part of speech

Silky

  1. superl. Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
  2. superl. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
  3. superl. Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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