Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sigillaria"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sigillaria \Sig`il*la"ri*a\, n. pl. [L., from sigillum a seal.
See {Sigil}.] (Rom. Antic.)
Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or
given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia;
hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the
Saturnalia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sigillaria \Sig`il*la"ri*a\, n. [NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum
a seal.] (Paleon.)
A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal
formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in
vertical rows on the surface.


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