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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Silky \Silk"y\, adjective [Compar. {Silkier}; superl. {Silkiest}.]
1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
2. Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
3. Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
{Silky oak} (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree ({Grevillea robusta}) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
silky
adjective: having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: {glossy}, {satiny}, {sleek}, {silken}, {silklike}, {slick}] [also: {silkiest}, {silkier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "silky": attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, cottony, dainty, deferential, delicate, disarming, downy, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flagelliform, flossy, fluffy, funicular, furbished, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, ligamental, lustrous, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, ropy, rubbed, saccharine, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, thin-spun, threadlike, thready, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, velvety, wiredrawn, wiry
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