(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:08:24

Silk"i*ness (?), n.

1.

The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

2.

Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.

[R.]

B. Jonson.

 

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