Answer:
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
I move without wings between silken strings. I leave as you find my substance behind
I am owned by every man though my length differs. Their wives uses me after getting married.
I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?