The strong, soft, lustrous fibre produced by the larvæ of certain bombycine moths which feed upon mulberry leaves, etc., and by certain spiders…
With plural agreement. The name of a people anciently inhabiting some part of Eastern Asia (probably China), whose country was believed to be the…
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— capacity for being twisted or spun (1)
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