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silken

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Searchable Lemmata: seolcen (OE), selken (ME).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(adj.) Raw Material; made of silk, or otherwise having the properties of silk.( still in current use)
1. Bombicinum : seolcen. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0771 (771))]
2. Bombicinum vel bombonicum : seolcen gegerla. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (0211 (B338))]
3. Tramasericum : seolcen ab ł linen wearp. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0775 (775))]
4. ceu serica pensa : swa seolcen ðræd [DOE AldÆ 2 (Nap) (0074 (73))]
5. Þa wæs micel wundor þæt he wæs eallswa gehal swylce he cucu wære mid clænum lichaman, and his swura wæs gehalod þe ær wæs forslagen, and wæs swylce an seolcen þræd embe his swuran ræd, mannum to sweotelunge hu he ofslagen wæs. [DOE ÆLS (Edmund) (0047 (176))]
6. Treowa wæstmas hi æton & wyrta, nalles scir win hi ne druncan, ne nanne wætan hi ne cuþon wið hunige mengan; ne seolocenra hrægla mid mistlicum bleowum hi ne gimdon. [DOE Bo (0372 (15.33.28))]
7. Platum : seolce(n) hnygele. [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0809 (809))]
8. Treowa wæstmas hi æton & wyrta, nalles scir win hi ne druncan, ne nanne wætan hi ne cuþon wið hunige mengan; ne seolocenra hrægla mid mistlicum bleowum hi ne gimdon. [DOE Bo (0372 (15.33.28))]
OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE seoluc 'silk' ; supposed to stem from L sericus or from Greek ['silk, n. and a.', OED, 2nd ed. (1989)].
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