Alternative form of floss silk

Alternative form of floss silk.

The fine soft yellowish threads that are the stigmata of corn flowers, which are later enclosed inside the husk of corn ears next to the kernels on corn cobs.

(idiomatic) to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)

An extremely fine, rare and valuable fabric produced from the long silky filaments or byssus excreted by several molluscs (particularly Pinna nobilis, rough penshell) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed.

A twilled silk fabric used mostly for lining parts of men's coats.

Silk made waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

(aviation, military, slang) A parachute.

plural of silk elevator

Fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.