- scír
- adj clear, bright; 1. of living creatures, bright, brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; 1a. of quality; 1b. morally clear, pure; 2. of inanimate things, (a) of vegetation, bright, brilliant, white; (b) of metals, stones, etc., bright, lustrous, glittering, brilliant; (c) of glass, clear, transparent; (d) of water, clear, limpid; (e) of wine, bright, clear, pure, neat, unmixed; (f) of light and light-giving things, bright, clear, brilliant; (g) of the world; (h) of a banner; (i) of the voice, clear--------f (-e/-a) 1. office, appointment, charge, authority, supremacy, business, administration, government; 1a. where the term refers to an English official; 2. a district, province, shire, as an ecclesiastical term diocese, parish, see; 2a. the people of a district, a tribe; 2b. a hut; 3. as a technical English term, a shire; 3a. the people of a shire, the community inhabiting a shire; 4. as an ecclesiastical term, the district in charge of an ecclesiastic (bishop, etc.), a diocese, parish;
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.