having a smooth, gleaming surface; " glossy auburn hair"; " satiny gardenia petals"; " sleek black fur"; " silken eyelashes"; " silky skin"; " a silklike fabric"; " slick seals and otters"

Silkiness.

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

Of, pertaining to, or like, silk; soft; smooth; lustrous.

Like silk in texture: soft: smooth: glossy.

Like silk; fine; glossy.

Like silk; silken.

Made of silk; consisting of silk; like silk; silken.

Possessing the qualities of silk; soft; glossy; having the appearance of silk.

Of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool, Or how the Seres comb from off the leaves Their silky fleece? – The Georgics by Virgil

It's so soft and silky. – At Love's Cost by Charles Garvice

My will is law to her, as it must be to thee if thou wilt not learn wisdom, and how to hold me by a thread of silk, a thread of thy silky hair. – The Golden Silence by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Desiree had set her price at one hundred and fifty francs, after abating the fifty mentioned, and Colonel Silky had early made up his mind to give only one hundred. – Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief by James Fenimore Cooper

Her eyes were blue, and her glossy dark hair fell in soft, silky ringlets. – The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Child

You will inquire for le Colonel Silky, when you call. – Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief by James Fenimore Cooper

It was a pleasant voice, a feminine one, silky and soothing. – Daughters of Doom by Herbert B. Livingston

It was a pure, pale face, lighted by lustrous dark eyes, crowned by waving masses of dark silky hair; exquisitely molded features, upon which there rested an expression of mingled weariness and resignation, the look of " A soul whose experience Has paralyzed bliss." – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

He went to the place where he had warned her of the snakes, and cut a great bundle of long silky grass, surprisingly tough, yet neither harsh nor juicy; he brought it her and said he should be very glad of a hundred yards of light cord, three ply and five ply. – Foul Play by Charles Reade Dion Boucicault

Without a word of explanation as to what had happened, Madame de Savignac kissed my dog good- bye on the top of his silky head, while de Savignac stroked him tenderly. – A Village of Vagabonds by F. Berkeley Smith

Perhaps her dark, silky lashes and hair were Mornac's, but if this was so, I trusted that there the aristocratic blood had spent its force in the frail body of this child of chance. – The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It was beautiful fair silky hair, smooth and shining; carelessly arranged in an enormous knot to all appearances, but in reality with much care. – The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

Paula, too, was there, and from time to time she stroked Pulcheria's silky golden hair, for the girl had seated herself at her feet, leaning her head against Paula's knee. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

He would keep taking off her little cap to look at her silky hair, and he taught her to make grimaces which charmed him. – Renée Mauperin by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

He left her sitting up there in bed, her fingers still caressing the silky treasure. – Missy by Dana Gatlin

The silky sound of the rain against the window is soft as a caress, and the water- pipe on the roof sobs low like a pigeon.... – Barks and Purrs by Colette Willy, aka Colette Translated by Maire Kelly

There were ten minutes between her and a trap- door that opened into the silvery streak of water out there, whose shimmering now had lost its beauty and seemed like the hideous, insinuating, silky movement of some ghastly reptile. – Doors of the Night by Frank L. Packard

Her silky black eyelashes lay motionless upon her pale cheeks. – The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Lady May, she is dying- she hears some one whisper, Near where she's lying, 'Come away, sister'- Draw down each silky lid- draw them down over Eyes whose last light on earth shone on her lover. – Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Revised by Alexander Leighton

Once more she flung her arms around Keep's massive neck, kissed his silky ears, wept violently for the smallest fraction of a minute; and then, stepping into the canoe with the light precision of one skilled with the birch- bark, she pushed off, and with quick, vigorous strokes headed straight across the lake. – Barbara Ladd by Charles G. D. Roberts