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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
buffed, burnished, cottony, deferential, disarming, finished, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, plush, plushy, polished, rubbed, saccharine, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, soft as silk, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, velvety
Dictionary Results for silken:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
silken
    adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light;
           "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek
           black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike
           fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: satiny,
           sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Silken \Silk"en\, a. [AS. seolcen, seolocen.]
   1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk;
      as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
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   2. Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
      "Silken terms precise." --Shak.
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   3. Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Silken \Silk"en\, v. t.
   To render silken or silklike. --Dyer.
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