A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sio(u)n, Syo(u)n, n. [ME sioun (c1305), scyon (Trevisa), scioun (c1440), e.m.E. syon (Cath. Angl.), sien (1590), scion (1619), etc., OF cion, syon (13th and late 14th c. in Larousse), (F. scion, early 17th c.).]
1. A shoot, twig or sucker; a sapling.a1500 Seven S. 318.
Fra the rute … A pynule a syon of this pyne Grew wp 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 76.
The knoppit syonis with leuis aggreabill 1513 Doug. iii i 71 (Sm.).
The thrid syon of treis [L. tertia hastilia] … I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise 1513 Doug. xi ii 17.
A beir Of sowpill wandis … Bund with the syonys or the twystis sle Of small rammell or stobys of akyn tre 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 135.
Ilk burgioun, syon, herb and flour 1513 Doug. xii iv 124.
2. An heir or descendant.1591 Warrender P. (SHS) II 165.
To see so virtious and honorable syonns aryse of that race whereof we have both our discent
