Cion vs Cmon - What's the difference?
cion | cmon |
(chiefly, in botanical senses)
* 1621–1626' (published posthumously in '''1627 ): , ''Sylva Sylvarum?:?or, A Natural History?;?in ten centuries'', century V, ''Experiments in consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination , ¶?421; reprinted in:
* 1838 , The works of Lord Bacon?:?with an introductory essay, and a portrait?;?in two volumes , volume 1,
As a noun cion
is an alternative spelling of scion.As a contraction cmon is
an alternative spelling of c'mon.cion
English
Noun
(en noun)page 133(London?:?William Ball, Paternoster Row?;?stereotyped and printed by John Childs and son)
- 421.?Men have entertained a conceit that showeth prettily?;?namely, that if you graft a late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, the graft will bear early?;?as a peach upon a cherry?;?and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late?;?as a cherry upon a peach.?But these are but imaginations, and untrue.?The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock quite?:?and the stock is but passive only, and giveth aliment, but no motion to the graft.