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Like a sylph; airy; graceful. Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze. Byron.

Same as Silva.

Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.

A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]

An old name for tellurium. [Written also silvanium.]

A salt of sylvic acid.

Sylvan. [R.]

Sylvan. [R.]

led also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from Pinus sylvestris, and other species).

Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

Native potassium chloride.

See Syn-.

See Simar.

See Cimbal. [Obs.]

ganisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis. -- Sym`bi*ot"ic*al (#), a. -- Sym`bi*ot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

ance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it represents, e.g., an actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representat…

See Symbolics.