Empty-Net Goal - Ice Hockey (gambling) and silk (iou)

Empty-Net Goal - Ice Hockey (gambling)

A goal scored against a team that has pulled the goalie.

silk (iou)

silk noun, adjective, & verb.

A. noun.
A fine strong soft lustrous protein fibre produced by various invertebrates, esp. by the caterpillars of certain moths and by many spiders; spec. that produced by silkworms and used to make thread for textiles. OE.
Science Spiders..spin silk for egg sacs, for drag lines..and for aerial webs.
b. This fibre in the form of thread or twist for Sewing. L15.
c. A silken thread. rare. L17.
Cloth or fabric made from this fibre. OE.
C. Isherwood You'd expect an important Film man to wear silk next to his skin.
b. A particular kind of silk cloth or fabric. M16.
A garment made of silk; esp. (a) a woman's silk dress; (b) a silk-covered hat; (c) a silk stocking. Freq. in pl. E16.
W. Cowper As she sweeps him with her whistling silks.
b. Law. A King's or Queen's Counsel (with ref. to the right to wear a silk gown); such lawyers collectively. E19.
c. sing. & (now usu.) in pl. A jockey's cap and jacket carrying an employer's or horse-owner's colours. L19.
New Yorker In his first appearance in silks since the accident, he won.
(Each of) the long silklike filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Chiefly N. Amer. M18.
A silky lustre in rubies and sapphires due to microscopic crystal inclusions (usu. considered a defect). L19.
A parachute. Chiefly in hit the silk below. US Air Force slang. M20.
Phrases: artificial silk: see ARTIFICIAL adjective 2. corn silk = sense 4 above. hit the silk (US Air Force slang) bale out of an aircraft by parachute. in silk (chiefly N. Amer.) (of maize) at the stage when the silk is prominent. Jap silk: see JAP adjective. Japanese silk: see Japanese adjective. Persian silk: see PERSIAN adjective. receive silk, take silk be appointed King's or Queen's Counsel. Thai silk: see Thai adjective. waste silk: see WASTE noun & adjective. wild silk: see WILD adjective etc.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
Made of silk, silken; (of a fabric) containing or resembling silk. ME.
Proverb: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Of a person: clad in silk. rare. E17.
Resembling silk in lustre or shine; silky; (of paint) giving a finish of this kind. E17.
Comb. & special collocations: silkbark a small evergreen tree of southern Africa, Maytenus acuminata (family Celastraceae); silk cotton the silky fibre surrounding the seeds of various tropical trees of the family Bombycaceae, used as a packing and stuffing material etc.; silk-cotton tree, a tree which produces such fibre, esp. (a) the kapok, Ceiba pentandra, (b) (in full Indian silk-cotton tree) Bombax ceiba; silk-fowl a breed of fowl with a silky plumage; silk-gland a gland secreting the substance which hardens in air to form silk; silk grass any of various fibre-yielding bromeliads (esp. Bromelia magdalenae), agaves, and yuccas of the southern US, Central America, etc.; the fibre obtained from these plants; silk hat a tall cylindrical hat covered with silk plush; silk moth any of various large moths whose larvae spin silk cocoons, esp. of the Families Saturniidae and Bombycidae, spec. the moth Bombyx mori (cf. SILKWORM moth); silk road, silk route (freq. with cap. initials) a trade route from China through India to Europe, used in ancient times by traders in silk; silk screen a screen of fine mesh (orig. silk) for use in screen printing (usu. attrib.); a print made by the silk screen process; silk-screen verb trans. print, decorate, or reproduce by the silk screen process; silk snapper W. Indies any of several Caribbean fishes of the snapper family, Lutjanidae; silk stocking a stocking made of silk (usu. in pl.); a wearer of silk stockings, a wealthy person; silk-stockinged adjective clad in silk stockings; silk-tail a waxwing; silk-tassel (bush) = GARRYA; silk-throwing the process of converting raw silk into silk yarn or thread; silk-tree a pink-flowered leguminous tree of eastern Asia, Albizia julibrissin, resembling a mimosa and widely naturalized; silk waste silk fibres left after the reeling of silk yarn, or obtained from damaged cocoons; silkweed any of various N. American milkweeds (genus Asclepias). See also SILKWORM.
C. verb.
verb trans. Remove the silk from (maize). N. Amer. M19.
verb intrans. Of maize: produce the silk. N. Amer. L19.
silked adjective clothed in or covered with silk; spec. (of a book, its pages, etc.) strengthened by silking: M19.
silker noun a person who works in or with silk L19.
silking verbal noun (a) the attachment of a piece of silk or Other fine material to a sheet of paper to strengthen or preserve it; (b) development of the silk in maize: M20.
silklike adjective resembling (that of) silk L17.

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