Defn: A dealer in silks; a silk mercer. Shak.
SILKNESS
Silk"ness, n.
Defn: Silkiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
SILK-STOCKING
Silk"-stock`ing, a.
Defn: Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; — chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.
[They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers. Jefferson.
SILKWEED
Silk"weed`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
SILKWORM
Silk"worm`, n. Etym: [AS. seolcwyrm.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.