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Sylva [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In poetry, a poetical piece composed in a start or kind of transport.

2. A collection of poetical pieces of various kinds.

Sylva [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Silva.

Sylvae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sylva

Sylvan [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SYLVAN . [ See Silvan .]

Sylvan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes perhaps, a rustic.

2. Her private orchards, wall'd on ev'ry side,

3. To lawless sylvans all access deni'd.

Sylvan [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.

2. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.

3. A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.

Sylvan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

Sylvanite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Native tellurium, a metallic substance recently discovered.

Sylvanite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Sylvanium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An old name for tellurium.

Sylvate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A salt of sylvic acid.

Sylvatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sylvan.