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I. sylvester, n.1 Obs.Also silv-.[In sense 1, ad. L. syl-, silvestris; in sense 2, ad. L. silvestre (sc. grānum seed), neut. of silvestris: see sylvester a.]1. In the system of Paracelsus, a spirit of the woods.1657H. Pinnell Philos. Reformed i. i. 27 In the Aire or our airy world there are Umbratils, Silvesters, Satyrs, whose Monsters are the Gyants.Ibid. ii. 15 marg., Gnomes, Sylvesters and Lemures.2. Name for an inferior kind of cochineal (supposed, like the true cochineal, to be the seed of a plant).1697W. Dampier Voy. I. v. 124 The Friers get plentiful incomes..in other places where they plant Cochoneel Trees, or Silvester Trees.Ibid. viii. 229 The Silvester is a red grain growing in a Fruit much resembling the Cochineel⁓fruit.1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3895/3 Goods out of the Mary Man of War from Vigo, consisting of Sugars,..Campuchina, or Silvester. [1791Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Art of Dyeing II. ii. iii. iii. 170 The sylvestris is a sort of cochineal.]II. sylvester, sil-, a. Obs. rare.[ad. L. sil-, sylvester, -tris, f. silva, sylva.]= sylvestrian a.1 So sylˈvestral a. Bot., growing in woods or woodland places; of a type found in woods; sylˈvestrial, sylˈvestric, sylˈvestrious, sylˈvestrous adjs. = sylvestrian a.11578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India (1596) 378 They did maintaine themselves with rootes, hearbes, and *silvester frutes.1720–1Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 169 One Time a mighty Plague did pester All Beasts Domestick and Sylvester.1858Irvine Hand-bk. Brit. Plants 80 *Sylvestral plants..grow chiefly in woods; but some..also in hedges, and more in bushy places.1863J. G. Baker N. Yorksh. 181 Aboriginal species characteristically paludal, uliginal, ericetal, and sylvestral.1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 630 All wilde *siluestriall beastes are dryer then the tame, modern, and domesticall.1620Venner Via Recta iii. 64 It [sc. the pheasant] may of all syluestriall Fowle, well challenge the first place at tables.1623Cockeram i, *Syluestrick, wilde, rusticall.1656Blount Glossogr., Sylvestrick, *Sylvestrious..of Wood or Forest, full of Trees or Wood, woody.1653R. Mason in Bulwer Anthropomet. Lett. to Author **4, The ruder crouds and *silvestrous heards of mankinde.
sil-
combining form
Etymology: silicon
: containing or derived from silicon
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