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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SCION , a slip or cutting of a See also:

TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree or plant used for grafting, hence a See also:

young shoot or twig . In a transferred sense the word is used of the See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir or any young member of a See also:

FAMILY

family, a descendant . The word in O . Fr. was cion or syon, mod. scion, and the See also:

early forms in See also:

ENGLISH

English are syon, cion or cyon . These forms seem to disprove the usual See also:

ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology, which connects it with Fr. scier, to cut, See also:

Lat. secare .

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