sillyton

[SILLY.] A simpleton. " Sillyton, forbear railing."-Bailey: Erasmus, p. 413. si-lō (1), s. [O. Fr.] [ENSILAGE, SILAGE.] 1. A store-pit for potatoes or beets. 2. A pit in which green fodder is tightly packed to make silage or ensilage. "The system of preserving one kind of green food, at least, was practiced in pits or silos more than eighty years ago."- Field , Oct. 3, 1885. si-lō (2), s. [Lat.silus=snub-nose.] Entom.: A genus of Ser i cos tom a tide. The species, which are mostly small dark insects much resembling each other, usually abound in the localities where they occur, the males flying briskly in the afternoon, especially in bright sunshine, settling on the herbage, among which the le active females occur. si-10, v. t. [SILO (1), 8.] To pack or store in a silo. manner; foolishly. "We are caught as sillily as the bird in the net."L'Estrange: Fables.