Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
scion . - noun A genus of wild dogs of southeastern Asia, differing from
Canis in lacking the small last lower molar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cion , andscion .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
scion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Asiatic wild dog
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Examples
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You may, if you please, with this manner of grafting graft vpon euery seuerall cyon, a seuerall fruit, and so haue from one trée many fruits, as in case of grafting with the leafe, and that with much more spéede, by as much as a well-growne graft is more forward and able then a weake tender leafe.
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Virgil tells us they will join in marriage with the oak, and they would both be tryed; and that with the more probable success, for such lignous kinds, if you graff under the earth, upon, or near the very root it self, which is likely to entertain the cyon better than when more exposed, till it be well fixt, and have made some considerable progress.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Autumn, may (as some practise it) be cut within three or four inches of the ground the Spring following, which the new cyon will suddenly repair in clusters, and tufts of fair poles of twenty, or sometimes thirty foot long: But I rather should spare them till two or three years after, when they shall have taken strong hold, and may be cut close to the very earth, the improsperous and feeble ones especially.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Suche is the na - cyon of Gascoyne: they be not stable, for they loue yet the Englysshemen better then the frenssheme, for theyr warre agaynst y Frensshemen were more profytable for them then agaynst the Englysshemen; this is the pryncypall incydent y moost inclyneth them therto.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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Thear is a howes in Boxford now shet vp for the infec - cyon of the plage.
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Among thefe the principal are Salamis, in the ifland of the fame name, on the coaft of Attica; Si - cyon, Orchomenus, and Hermione, in Peloponnefus j Pharfalos, in Theffaly; and Smyrna and Ephefus, in Ionia.
Maps, Plans, Views and Coins, Illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the ... Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage 1791
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Kingfisher | Passeres | A.gubrostres | A.cedo | A. A.cyon.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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_cean_, as in ocean; in some it is spelled _tion_, as in nation; in some it is spelled _sion_, as in mansion; in some it is spelled _cian_, as in physician; in some it is spelled _cyon_, as in halcyon; in some it is spelled _sian_, as in Parnassian.
Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Richard Green Parker 1833
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Kingfisher | Passeres | A.gubrostres | A.cedo | A. A.cyon.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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To conclude, there is a way of graffing a sallow-trunchion; take it of two foot and half long, as big as your wrist; graff at both ends a fig, and mulberry-cyon of a foot long, and so, without claying, set the stock so far into the ground, as the plant may be three or four inches above the earth: This (some affirm) will thrive exceedingly the first year, and in three, be fit to transplant.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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