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- noun   Obsolete spelling of scion .
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Examples
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								[A] Fter solempne and wyse wryters of Arte and of scyence .... Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name 
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								In Chap. X is a cut with the various numerals, the chapter beginning "The fourth scyence is called arsmetrique." The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902 
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								And hurteth hy_m_ self for lake of scyence; he maye not geve answere co_n_venyente Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867 
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								Sad and discrete, and right well sene [15] in scyence; Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864 
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								And where your frendes thynke, ye labour for scyence: The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489 
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								Cometh all this scyence that men leare: 'or, with Ashmole himself; that 'old words have strong emphasis: others may look upon them as rubbish or trifles, but they are grossly mistaken: for what some light brains may esteem as foolish toys, deeper judgments can and will value as sound and serious matter. [ Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811 
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