Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Silken

Silken , adjective

[Anglo-Saxon seolcen, seolocen.]

1.
Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
2.
Figuratively: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
Silken terms precise. — Shakespeare
3.
Dressed in silk.
A... silken wanton. — Shakespeare

Silken , transitive verb

To render silken or silklike. — Dyer