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Sib  adj.  Related by blood; akin. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "Your kindred is but... little sib to you." "(He) is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sib" Quotes from Famous Books



... answer for myself, and have taken you in two lies at once: first, Much is no knave, neither was it a horse Little John and I loaded, but a little curtal of some five handfuls high, sib to the ape's ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various

... suggest, however, that to these important features there is to be added a parallel in survival to the Semang and Arunta features where the local circumstances of birth are the determining forces which supply the totem name, for the relationship of "gossip," "god-sib," is clearly of the same character as that of the soul-tree of the Semang and the alcheringa of the Australian.[396] The condition of survival has altered the detail of the parallel, but the parallel is ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme



Words linked to "Sib" :   quint, quin, relation, blood relative, relative, blood relation, triplet, quintuplet, family unit, cognate, family, sibling, patrilineal sib, twin, quad, matrilineal sib



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