Silk"en (?), a. [AS. seolcen, seolocen.]
1.
Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
2.
Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
"
Silken terms precise."
Shak.
3.
Dressed in silk.
"A . . .
silken wanton."
Shak.
© Webster 1913.
Silk"en, v. t.
To render silken or silklike.
Dyer.
© Webster 1913.