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Sister. [Obs.] Chaucer. There are seven sustren, that serve truth ever. Piers Plowman.

ommon tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.

The siskin. [Prov.]

pant. "Sweet tenants of this grove." Cowper. The hhappy tenant of your shade. Cowley. The sister tenants of the middle deep. Byron. Tenant in capite Etym: [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, a…

A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

ce; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. Shak.

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

To separate, as sisters; to disjoin. [Poetic & R.] Tennyson.

Not sisterly. Richardson.

A member of certain charitable sisterhoods.

Tennyson. Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. Longfellow. Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] G. Douglas.

An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well. Milton.

To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.

ing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form. Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. Shak. He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece. Judg. vi. 38.…