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for sib
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Sib \Sib\ (s[i^]b), n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative.
[root]289. See Gossip.]
1. A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.
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2. a sibling.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Sib \Sib\, a.
Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
Scott.
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Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
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[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all
To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
sib
n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]
2: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an
ancestor with another [syn: blood relation, blood
relative, cognate, sib]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "sib":
affiliated, agnate, akin, allied, ancestry, avuncular, blood,
blood relation, blood relative, clansman, closely related, cognate,
collateral, collateral relative, congeneric, connections,
consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, distaff side,
distant relation, distantly related, enate, family, flesh,
flesh and blood, folks, foster, friendly, german, germane, kin,
kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman,
kith and kin, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous,
near relation, next of kin, novercal, of the blood, patrilateral,
patrilineal, patroclinous, people, posterity, receptive, related,
relations, relatives, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin,
spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine, uterine kin,
well-disposed
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016) :
SIB
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