Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sib"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sib \Sib\, n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative. [root]289.
See {Gossip}.]
A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sib \Sib\, a.
Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
Scott.
Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but
sprung of seed terrestrial. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sib
n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: {sibling}]
2: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an
ancestor with another [syn: {blood relation}, {blood
relative}, {cognate}]
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