Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Before now; ago.
  • adverb Afterward; since then; since.
  • adverb Thereupon; next.
  • conjunction Since.
  • preposition Since.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The Scotch spelling of sine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Obs. or Scot. Afterwards; since; ago.
  • adverb Late, -- as opposed to soon.
  • conjunction Scot. Since; seeing.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Scots, from Middle English sitthen, from Old English siththan.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Contracted form of sithen.

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