See Also: Sylvester(dictionary)
sylvester(1)(dictionary)
sylvester(2)(dictionary)
Sylvester II(encyclopedia)
Sanfilippo, Sylvester(medicine)
Stallone, Sylvester(dictionary)

sylvester(1) (iou)



sylvester noun1.M17.
[In sense 1 formed as SYLVESTER adjective; in sense 2 from Latin silvestre (sc. granum), neut. of silvestris SYLVESTER adjective.]
A spirit of the woods (in the system of Paracelsus). Only in M17.
An inferior kind of cochineal dye (supposed, like the true cochineal, to be derived from the seed of a plant). L17-E18.