Syon vs Scion - What's the difference?
syon | scion | Alternative forms |
* 1483 , Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, Catholicon Anglicum ,
* 1513 , , book 3?, lines 19–22; reprinted in:
* 1874 , and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld?:?with memoir, notes, and glossary ,
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
The heir to a throne.
A guardian.
Syon is an alternative form of scion.
As nouns the difference between syon and scion
is that syon is (scion) while scion is a descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.syon
English
Noun
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- A Syon? or A twige?;?Aborigo & p''ro''p''r''ie e''st'' pl''u''r''al''is Num''er''i'', ''vitulame''n, ''frutex'', ''&'' cetera?;?''v''b''i twigge (A.).
page 120] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fb06AAAAMAAJ&q=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&dq=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&ei=0p_rSaPAIIyENKapuLQB&pgis=1 ?], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rjIhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&dq=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&ei=0p_rSaPAIIyENKapuLQB&pgis=1 ?(W. Paterson)
- Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
- Apon the sandis sittand on my kneis,
- I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise,
- Quhidder sall I speik now, or hald my peice??
