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sib(1) (iou)



sib adjective & noun3.
[Old English sib(b) = Old Frisian sibbe, Middle Dutch sib(b)e, Old High German sibbi, sippi, Old Norse pl. fem. sifjar, Gothic sibjis, of unkn. origin. Cf. SIB noun1.]
A. adjective.
Related by birth or descent (to), akin (to) (arch. exc. Scot.); spec. (of canaries) related by birth or descent. OE.
R. Kipling I'm all o'er-sib to Adam's breed.
b. transf. Allied or similar (to). arch. exc. Scot. ME.
Having a right or claim to a thing, esp. by birth. Scot. E18.
b. noun.
A blood relation; blood relations collectively, kin. OE.
b. Anthropology. (A member of) a lineal or cognatic kinship group, orig. and esp. among Germanic peoples. L19.
Chiefly Genetics. A sibling, a brother or sister; = SIBLING 2. E20.
sibbed adjective (long obsolete exc. dial.) = SIB adjective 1 L15.
sibness noun (long obsolete exc. Scot.) relationship, kinship ME.
sibred noun (a) (now Scot.) blood relationship, blood relations; (b) dial. marriage banns: OE.
sibship noun (a) Anthropology the state or fact of belonging to a sib or to the same sib; (b) Biology & Medicine a group comprising all the offspring born to a particular pair of parents: E20.