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- noun Obsolete spelling of
scion .
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Examples
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Very praisable [lovely] and fulbright [beautiful] was the said lady, being sanguine of complexion, of a full fair face, and fair hair, having grey [grey] cyen and rosen colour of her cheeks.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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It infihuates itfclf cyen into familiar conver - fation; arid, unfought, rifes up of its own accord \n the rnind.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes ... 1787
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Three Arts then appear necejfary,. cyen upon the loweji Eftimation.
Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art the Second Concerning Music Painting and Poetry the ... 1783
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