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Webster 1913 Edition

Scion

Sci′on

,
Noun.
[OF.
cion
, F.
scion
, probably from
scier
to saw, fr. L.
secare
to cut. Cf.
Section
.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
(b)
A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
[Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]
2.
Hence, a descendant; an heir;
as, a
scion
of a royal stock
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Scion

SCION.

[See Cion.]

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