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English Dictionary: Sib by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sib
n
  1. a person's brother or sister
    Synonym(s): sibling, sib
  2. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
    Synonym(s): blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sib \Sib\, n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative. [root]289.
      See {Gossip}.]
      A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sib \Sib\, a.
      Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
      Scott.
  
               Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
  
               [He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but
               sprung of seed terrestrial.                     --Spenser.
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