silken

Made of silk.

a silken veil

Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly

Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers, / Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres.

[L]ove is not to be bought, in any ſenſe of the vvords, its ſilken vvings are inſtantly ſhrivelled up vvhen any thing beſide a return in kind is ſought.

Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer-flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:

Dressed in silk.

[S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?

Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet / Every fine silken painted foole we meet, / He then to him with amorous smiles allures,

To render silken or silklike.

silkening body lotion

Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed, Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw, Silk’ning their fleeces.