silk gland serictery sericterium | silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders |
dress hat high hat opera hat silk hat stovepipe top hat topper beaver | a man's hat with a tall crown, usually covered with silk or with beaver fur |
moire watered-silk | silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern |
nylons nylon stocking rayons rayon stocking silk stocking | women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) |
silk | a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae |
silkscreen silk screen print serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
tone pure tone | a steady sound without overtones, they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies |
pure mathematics | the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness |
binary numeration system pure binary numeration system binary number system binary system | a positional system of numeration that uses binary digits and a radix of two |
Lashkar-e-Taiba Lashkar-e-Toiba Lashkar-e-Tayyiba LET Army of the Pure Army of the Righteous | a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir, fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India, Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus |
Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (, miles), followed by Marco Polo in the th century to reach Cathay |
silk tree Albizia julibrissin Albizzia julibrissin | attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens |
mountain rice silkgrass silk grass Indian millet Oryzopsis hymenoides | valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico |
cornsilk corn silk | each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn |
Jamaican cherry calabur tree calabura silk wood silkwood Muntingia calabura | a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit, bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves |
silk oak | any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering |
ramie ramee Chinese silk plant China grass Boehmeria nivea | tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves, cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax |
silk vine Periploca graeca | deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits, cultivated for its dark shining foliage, southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
pure imaginary number | an imaginary number of the form abi where a is |
pure absence simple absence | an absence seizure without other complications, followed by -per-sec brainwave spikes |
kapok silk cotton vegetable silk | a plant fiber from the kapok tree, used for stuffing and insulation |
red silk cotton | a plant fiber from the red silkotton tree of eastern India, inferior to kapok |
silk | animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders |
purify sublimate make pure distill | remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation, purify the water |
pure vestal virgin virginal virtuous | in a state of sexual virginity, pure and vestal modesty, a spinster or virgin lady, men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal |
saturated pure | (of color) being chromatically pure, not diluted with white or grey or black |
pure | concerned with theory and data rather than practice, opposed to applied, pure science |
pure | free from discordant qualities |
silk-lined | having a silk lining |
e arrant(a) complete(a) consummate(a) double-dyed(a) everlasting(a) gross(a) perfect(a) pure(a) sodding(a) stark(a) staring(a) thoroughgoing(a) utter(a) unadulterated | without qualification, used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers, an arrant fool, a complete coward, a consummate fool, a double-dyed villain, gross negligence, a perfect idiot, pure folly, what a sodding mess, stark staring mad, a thoroughgoing villain, utter nonsense, the unadulterated truth |
pure | (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults, sinless, I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath, pure as the driven snow |
pure | free of extraneous elements of any kind, pure air and water, pure gold, pure primary colors, the violin's pure and lovely song, pure tones, pure oxygen |