siens

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SIENS. An obsolete word, formerly used for scion, which figuratively 
signified a person who descended from another. "The sien," says Lord Coke, 
"takes all his nourishment from the stocke, and yet it produceth his own 
fruit." Co. Lit. 123 a. Vide Branch. 
    

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