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Answer for the clue "Waste fibers of silk ", 5 letters:
floss

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Word definitions for floss in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Floß is a municipality in the district of Neustadt (Waldnaab) in Bavaria in Germany , Europe .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth [syn: dental floss ] v. use dental floss to clean; "floss your teeth after every meal"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a thread, used to clean the area between the teeth 2 (raw) silk fibres 3 the fibres covering a corn cob 4 Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other. 5 (context British English) Spun sugar ...

Usage examples of floss.

I skipped my flossing for once, did a left-handed toothbrushing, and annointed myself with an inexpensive drugstore cologne that smelled like lilies of the valley.

Venus, a ridiculous pair of little feathered wings strapped to his back and the tiniest skirt of Coan floss silk about his waist, dyed with some cheap imitation saffron that had run a little because the room was closely shuttered and stuffily hot, leaving orange-yellow stains down the insides of his thighs that served only to draw attention to what was hidden, but barely.

Medusa the Gorgon, complete with a wig of genuine living snakelets that had the whole room screaming in terror every time he lowered his head and threatened to charge, and a flowing mass of draperies in Coan floss silk that showed the guests his biggest snake all too clearly.

His head was bare in the sun, his hair that shiny, stiff old-man white that made Tess think of dental floss.

Throughout his training he had thought of Floss as a swinish bully, a man who had cruelly injured one of his own men, a messdeck thug who needed to be forcibly and physically beaten down.

She was interested in her body and her face, but she was obsessed with her hair, which at the time they rescued Billy Anker from Redline was a long pinkish-blonde floss that smelled permanently of peppermint shampoo.

She peeled it over her head and stood naked, with her small breasts outthrust, narrow hips square and bonily dimpled, genitals flossed in feathery brown.

At first he thinks he is dreaming, but the distinctly nondreamlike detail of used dental floss on his nightstand assures him that he isn’t.

She was bunking with Floss, a situation neither woman liked but there was only so much cabin space on the KDM.

Floss, safely ensconced behind the "bar," dealt capably with the flow of customers and ignored the laughs and remarks from the idlers gathered at Eric's office.

Why should the Surveyors not be found there Above," gesturing with her Needle, a Curve-Ensemble of Embroidery Floss, of a nearly invisible gray, trailing after, in the currents rais'd by Talking, Pacing, Fanning, Approaching, Withdrawing, and whatever else there be to indoor Life, "drifting about, chaining the endless airy Leagues, themselves approaching a condition of pure Geometry?

Nor so many kinds of rocks," Floss crowed, striding gawkily around the hatch, her arms held out to display her finery in the manner of a fashion mannequin.

In A Dove of the East, he wrote Skanaarela tan floss atcha atcha gamble to.

Balancing a big basket on her head with both hands, she was bracketed between two tall Maasai women who moved with a grace Floss had yet to achieve.

Then soak the comb in hot soapy ammonia water and clean it with dental floss.