1657 H. Pinnell Philos. Reformed i. i. 27In the Aire or our airy world there are Umbratils, Silvesters, Satyrs, whose Monsters are the Gyants.
Ibid. ii. 15 marg.,Gnomes, Sylvesters and Lemures.
1697 W. Dampier Voy. I. v. 124The Friers get plentiful incomes..in other places where they plant Cochoneel Trees, or Silvester Trees.
Ibid. viii. 229The Silvester is a red grain growing in a Fruit much resembling the Cochineel⁓fruit.
1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3895/3Goods 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. 170The sylvestris is a sort of cochineal. ]
1578 T. N. tr. Conq. W. India (1596) 378They did maintaine themselves with rootes, hearbes, and *silvester frutes.
1720–1 Lett. fr. Mist'sJrnl. (1722) II. 169One Time a mighty Plague did pester All Beasts Domestick and Sylvester.
1858 Irvine Hand-bk. Brit. Plants 80*Sylvestral plants..grow chiefly in woods; but some..also in hedges, and more in bushy places.
1863 J. G. Baker N.Yorksh. 181Aboriginal species characteristically paludal, uliginal, ericetal, and sylvestral.
1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 630All wilde *siluestriall beastes are dryer then the tame, modern, and domesticall.
1620 Venner Via Recta iii. 64It may of all syluestriall Fowle, well challenge the first place at tables. [ sc. the pheasant]
1623 Cockeram i, *Syluestrick, wilde, rusticall.
1656 Blount Glossogr.,Sylvestrick, *Sylvestrious..of Wood or Forest, full of Trees or Wood, woody.
1653 R. 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
< silane >
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< silane >
— compare silic-