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scionn.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French scion. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman cioun, ciun, sioun and Old French cion, Middle French scion, syon (French scion ) shoot, tip, or top of a plant, descendant, offspring (13th cent.; 17th cent. in sense ‘cutting’), probably < an unattested noun borrowed < a Germanic cognate of chithe n. + French -on -oon suffix. Compare post-classical Latin scio, cio (13th cent. in British sources). the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip > for grafting α. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne l. 74 in W. Heuser (1904) 147 A tre..Þe rote is gingeuir..Þe siouns beþ al sedwale. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 166 As a sioun mai not bere fruyt but if it stonde stable in þe vyne. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) Num. xiii. 24 Thei..kittiden doun a sioun [L. palmitem] with his grape, which twei men baren in a barre. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil iii. i. 71 The thrid syon of treis [L. tertia hastilia]. 1590 R. Greene i. 52* A crooked sien will proue a straight tree. 1615 R. Brathwait 170 Seyons young, tender plants, Where the quire of woodbirds chants. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. xxi. 75 in Young Siens growing out at the Roots. ?1725 J. S. (ed. 3) 44 Cover the Roots of Fruit Trees that before were Open with Dung, Set Quicksets, and Graft choice Siens. 1912 42 i. 157 The question of the length of sion which is to be left is very frequently one which is troublesome to the propagator. β. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxviii. 1015 Propago..is a ȝong spray of a vyne that spryngeþ of a scyoun [a1425 Morgan scyon]. tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 89 Lest the sciouns crokidly vp crepe.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens vi. xlvii. 719 The roote of this tree spreadeth muche abroade in the grounde, and putteth foorth in many places newe springes and scyons.1619 T. Taylor (new ed.) Ded. Not tied to it as scion to a tree.1669 W. Simpson 270 The scions, imps, and grafts of fruit trees.1764 G. Washington 29 Mar. (1976) 327 From hence to the end of the Row are Cherry Scions for Grafting upon another year.1791 E. Darwin i. 104 Emerging scion, or awaken'd seed.1814 R. Southey xix. 78 Ne'er shall it clothe its boughs Again, nor push again its scyons forth.1858 G. Bentham 5 Scions, runners, and stolones or stoles, are names given to young plants formed at the end or at the joints of branches or stocks creeping wholly or partially above-ground.1879 2 207 I should greatly prefer to start five thousand elms or maples this year in Connecticut, if it could be done as easily as my five thousand willow scions seem likely to be stuck in the ground.1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland (ed. 2) i. xiii. 100 A cutting called a scion, is taken from the parent tree, and made to grow on the stock.2003 Mar. 35/1 The best scions are pencil-thick stems that grew the previous season.γ. (Harl. 221) 79 Cyvn of a tre, surculus, vitulamen.1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer iii, in 15 When trees shalbe thus proined they shall bring great Cyons from their rootes, which shall be franke and good to replant.1666 J. Evelyn (ed. 2) 12 Gather Cyons for Graffs before the buds sprout.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil 74 From Roots hard Hazles, and from Cyens rise Tall Ash. View more context for this quotationa1722 E. Lisle (1757) 441 Cyons grafted upon suckers.1796 C. Marshall vii. 108 Proper stocks being ready, and cions, or buds procured.1802 W. Forsyth xxii. 195 The cion preserves its natural purity and intent, though it be fed and nourished by a mere crab.1915 Mar. 86/1 Next the cion is inserted and if properly prepared will fit very tightly.1934 9 267 Blind and flowering cions from Mme. Butterfly rose plants were grafted on English Manetti stock on February 1, 1931.δ. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert f. xlvi Also of the scyences growynge about the tree.1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver 32 Wee see for one braunche of a tree stued off, that nature planteth seauen scients vppon the same stocke.1597 J. Gerard i. 34 The roote..from the which there doth shoote foorth manie yoong sciences.1612 T. Taylor ii. 14 No more than a sient can bring forth fruit which is not set into a stocke.1626 F. Bacon §453 If you can get a Cions to grow vpon a Stocke of another kinde.1653 R. Austen 49 Graft every Cyence into its own kind.1664 J. Evelyn xxix. 90 It is probable, that a Cience, or Bud, upon Graffing, or Inoculating, doth, as it were, Root it self into the stock in the same manner as the branches, by producing a kind of knot.1688 R. Holme ii. v. 87/1 Suckers,..sprouts: some call them Sciences.1704 W. Nicolson 30 Oct. (1985) 217 Dr Alston had eleven Ripe pears upon a Ciend of this year's growth not two Inches long; which he presented..to the Bishop of London. 2. figurative and in figurative context. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xv. 2 I am a verri vyne, and my fadir is an erthe tilier. Ech syoun, or braunche [L. palmitem], not berynge fruit in me, he schal do a wey it. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 4 We þe whiche ben þese cyouns or þe braunchis [ben oonyd] in þe verri vyne of þe sone of God. 1590 T. Lodge sig. B2 Shewe your selues siens worthie of so florishing a tree. 1596 E. Spenser v. i. sig. M6 Some of the vertuous race Rose vp..That cropt the branches of the sient base. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iv. 93 You see (sweet Maid) we marry A gentler Sien, to the wildest Stocke. View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Hockin 161 To be really in Christ, is to be grafted into him with the Cyon of divine grace. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton 298 To prevent the Extirpation of this most Ancient Scien of the Purer Religion. 1749 J. Gwynn 90 The Art of Design teaches at least as much useful Knowledge..as the Latin and Greek Tongues... Could we graft this Scion upon the present old Stock, we should not hear that so many Youths had lost their Time at the University. 1790 E. Burke 45 Upon that body and stock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant. View more context for this quotation 1818 T. Busby 429 Imitation, a scion of which the Fugue is the parent-tree. 1821 C. Lamb in Aug. 156/1 An humble and secular scion of that old stock of religious constancy. 1916 37 437 The Judas curse is really a Christian scion grafted on a pagan stem. 1996 L. D. Brodsky I. 300 Its speech transcends all the stalks and scions of the Tower of Babel. the world > people > person > child > [noun] society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose l. 28 in C. Horstmann (1878) 8 (MED) Ambrum is to seye fadur of liht, And syon a luytel child ful riht [L. sior, quod est parvulus]. 1591 in A. I. Cameron (1932) II. 165 To see so virtious and honorable syonns aryse of that race whereof we have both our discent. 1651 H. Delaune Ded. sig. A2 Those hopefull Scions, whom your fruitfull Wombe Gives to the World. 1723 E. Fenton iv. x. 52 Who wears the sword That flesh'd in slaughter, levell'd to the dust The royal stem, whence that poor scion sprung? 1772 J. H. Wynne I. iii. 462 The earl of Tyrone was a reputed bastard scyon of the noble Stock. 1803 T. R. Malthus (new ed.) i. vi. 66 Young scions are then pushed out from the parent stock, and instructed..to gain happier seats for themselves by their swords. 1816 Ld. Byron Dream ii, in 38 Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honoured race. 1869 E. A. Freeman III. 22 No son of a kingly father, no scion of legendary heroes. 1908 14 Sept. 7/1 This slim, pale scion of a worn-out line, and the nameless parentless girl beside her. 1950 Sept. 37/2 But the Western cowpunchers, although scions of an already ancient occupation, brought..prejudices. 2002 O. Figes (2003) iv. v. 262 Unlike Turgenev or Tolstoy, who were scions of the élite aristocracy, Bunin belonged to the minor provincial gentry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1335 |