sibIl us

(Lat.=a hi ing, a whistling.] Pathology : A dry sound like a sibilant murmur heard by auscultation in bronchitis; it indicates that the air-tubes are partially narrowed. *sib-rede, s. [A. S.] Relationship, relations. ( Gower : C. A. , viii.) sib-thorp-e-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. sibthorp(ia); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eӕ.] Bot .: A tribe of Rhinanthideæ (q. v.).