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Webster 1913 Edition
Sylvan
1.
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.
2.
Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
Syl′van
,Noun.
A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
Her private orchards, walled on every side,
To lawless
To lawless
sylvans
all access denied. Pope.
Syl′van
,Noun.
[
Sylva
+ furfuran
.] (Chem.)
A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; – called also
methyl tetrol
, or methyl furfuran
.