Definitions for silks

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IPA: /sɪlk/

Silks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in silks (iklss).

Definitions for silks

noun

1. the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
2. thread made from this fiber.
3. cloth made from this fiber.
4. a garment of this cloth.
5. a gown of such material worn distinctively by a King's or Queen's Counsel at the English bar.
6. silks, the blouse and peaked cap, considered together, worn by a jockey or sulky driver in a race.
7. Informal. a parachute, especially one opened aloft.
8. any fiber or filamentous matter resembling silk, as a filament produced by certain spiders, the thread of a mollusk, or the like.
9. the hairlike styles on an ear of corn.
10. British Informal. a King's or Queen's Counsel. any barrister of high rank.

Idioms

1. hit the silk, Slang. to parachute from an aircraft; bail out.
2. take silk, British. to become a Queen's or King's Counsel.

adjective

1. made of silk.
2. resembling silk; silky.
3. of or relating to silk.

verb (used without object)

1. (of corn) to be in the course of developing silk.

Origin of silks

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English sioloc, seol(o)c (cognate with Old Norse silki), by uncertain transmission Greek sērikón silk, noun use of neuter of sērikós silken, literally,

Examples for silks

If you'd been onto your job, things would have been smooth as silk.

Behind their silk hats loom shadows of their immigrant forbears.

Sometimes I wear my silk pyjamas when I am going for a walk in the mornings, does that make me eccentric?

When detectives raided her store and found the silk in her possession, they arrested her.

Get it ready for canning by husking it and removing the silk.

Waving a silk cloth, he declared, “Gentlemen, I will have this land just as surely as I now have this handkerchief.”

A hinge creaked, but it was no louder than the rustle of silk against silk.

The work-room of a silk factory affords a curious spectacle.

Another bold piece of color is a simple red dress made of silk gauze worn by one Monica Maurice for her wedding to Arthur Jackson.

I secretly hoped for a silk, but Mother, to whom I suppose I am even now—now!