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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 154 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of the See also:province of Negros See also:Oriental, See also:Philip-See also:pine Islands, on a small See also:island of the same name about 14 M. S.E of See also:Dumaguete, the See also:capital of the province. Pop. (1903) after the See also:annexation of See also:San Juan, 19,416. There are sixty-four barrios or villages in the town, but only one of these had in 1903 more than moo inhabitants. The See also:language is Bohol-Visayan. The See also:principal See also:industry is the raising of coco-nuts and preparing them for See also:market. Other See also:industries are the cultivation of See also:tobacco, See also:rice, See also:Indian See also:corn and See also:hemp, and the manufacture of sinamay, a coarse hemp See also:cloth. The island is of See also:coral formation; its highest point is about 1700 ft." Qui See also:par lignage esteit See also:des buens, apres son pere fu cuens," 4 and such See also:simple knights as " Sire Johan d'Erlee " (See also:Early in Berks), the originator of the poem, who was See also:squire to See also:William the See also:Marshal, or " Seingnor Will. de Monceals," who, though of very See also:good See also:family, was but See also:constable of a See also:castle. Throughout the poem, moreover, though Sire is the See also:form commonly used it is freely interchanged with Seignor and Monseignor. Thus we have " Seingnor Huc. de Corni " (l. 10935), " Sire See also:Hug. de Corni " (1.

10945) and " Monseingnor Huon de Corni (1. 10955). Occasionally it is replaced by See also:

Dan (See also:dominus), e.g. the See also:brother of See also:Louis VII. of See also:France is " Dan See also:Pierre de Cortenei " (1. 2131). Very rarely the e of Sire is dropped and we have See also:Sir: e.g. " Sir Will." (1. 12513). Sometimes, where the surname is not territorial, the effect is closely approximate to more See also:modern usage: e.g. " Sire Aleins See also:Basset," " Sire Enris li filz Gerolt " (Sir See also:Henry Fitz Gerald), " Sire See also:Girard Talebot," " Sire See also:Robert Tresgoz." It is notable that in connexion with a. name the See also:title Sire in the poem usually stands by itself: sometimes mis (my) is prefixed, but never li (the). See also:Standing alone, how- ever, Sire denominates a class and the See also:article is prefixed: e.g. See also:les seirs d'Engleterre—the lords of See also:England—(l. 15837).6 " Sire," " Seignor " are used in addressing the See also:king or a See also:great See also:noble. It is thus not difficult to see how the title " Sir " tame in England to be " prefixed to the expressions of knights." See also:Knight-See also:hood was the necessary concomitant of See also:rank, the ultimate See also:proof of See also:nobility.

The title that expressed this was Sire " or " Sir " prefixed to the See also:

Christian name. In the See also:case of earls or barons it might be lost in that of the higher rank, though this was not t Certainly not " from Cyr, KVp, a diminutive of the See also:Greek word Kbpioi " (F. W. Pixley, A See also:History of the Baronetage, 1900, p. 208). 2 For not very obvious reasons some baronets now See also:object to the contracted form " See also:Bart.," which had become customary. See Pixley, op. Cit. p. 212. 3 Edited in 3 vols., with notes, introduction and mod. See also:French See also:translation by See also:Paul See also:Meyer for the See also:Soc. de 1'Histoire de France (See also:Paris, 1891). 4 " Who was of good lineage and after his See also:father became See also:earl." 6 Cf.

1. 18682. N'entendi mie bien li sire Que mis sire Johan volt dire. ii is 19 12, Coelom of upper See also:

lip; it is continuous with 21. 13, Mouth. 14, See also:Lower lip. 15, See also:Blood-sinus of ventral See also:side, continuous with 6. 16, Ventral portion of " See also:skeleton." 17, Ventral See also:nerve-See also:cord. 18, Coelom, continuous with 12 and 21. 19, See also:Oesophagus. 20, Dorsal See also:vessel arising from the blood-sinus 6. 21, Coelom.

mesoblastic universal even much later: e.g. in the 14th See also:

century, Sir Henry of three, and only three fingers. The only See also:species, P. striatus, See also:Percy, the earl marshal, or Sir See also:John See also:Cobham, See also:Lord See also:Oldcastle. is a much smaller creature, growing to six inches only, and striated The See also:process by which the title lost all See also:connotation of nobility See also:black and yellow; it inhabits See also:Georgia and See also:Florida. would open up the whole question of the See also:evolution of classes As E. D. See also:Cope has first shown, the See also:siren must be regarded as in England (see See also:GENTLEMAN). In the case of baronets the prefix a degenerate rather than a See also:primitive type. He has observed "Sir" before the Christian name was ordained by King See also:James I. that in See also:young specimens of Siren lacertina (the larva is still un- when he created the See also:order. known) the gills are rudimentary and functionless, and that it is The old use of " Sir " as the See also:style of the See also:clergy, representing only in large adult specimens that they are fully See also:developed in a translation of dominus, would seem to be of later origin; in structure and See also:function; he therefore concludes that the See also:sirens are See also:Guillaume le Mareschal even a high dignitary of the See also:church is the descendants of a terrestrial type of batrachians, which passed still See also:maistre (See also:master): e.g. " Maistre Pierres li cardonals " through a See also:metamorphosis like the other members of their class, (l. 11399). It survived until the honorific prefix " See also:Reverend " but that more recently they have adopted a permanently aquatic became stereotyped as a clerical title in the 17th century. It See also:life, and have resumed their branchiae by reversion. From was thus used in See also:Shakespeare's See also:day: See also:witness " Sir See also:Hugh See also:Evans," what we have said above about See also:Proteus and similar forms, it is the Welsh See also:parson in The Merry Wives of See also:Windsor. In the See also:English evident that the " perennibranchiates " do not constitute a See also:universities there is a curious survival of this use of " Sir " for natural See also:group.

dominos, members of certain colleges, technically still " clerks," See E. D. Cope, " See also:

Batrachia of See also:North See also:America," See also:Bull. U.S. Nat. being entered in the books with the style of " Sir " without See also:Mus. No. 34 (1889), P. 223. the Christian name (e.g. " Sir See also:Jones "). SIRENIA, the name (in reference to the supposed mermaid-like In See also:ordinary address the title " Sir," like the French See also:Monsieur, See also:appearance of these animals when suckling their young) of an is properly applied to any See also:man of respectability, according to order of aquatic placental mammals, now represented by the circumstances.

Its use in ordinary conversation, as readers See also:

manati (or manatee) and See also:dugong, and till recently also by the of See also:Boswell will realize, was formerly far more See also:common than is See also:rhytina. Although in some degree approximating in See also:external now the case; nor did its employment imply the least sense of form to the See also:Cetacea, these animals differ widely in structure from inferiority on the See also:part of those who used it. The See also:general decay the members of that order, and have a totally distinct ancestry. of good See also:manners that has accompanied the rise of See also:democracy The existing species See also:present the following leading characteristics. in Great See also:Britain has, however, tended to banish its use, together The See also:head is rounded and not disproportionate in See also:size as compared with that of other convenient forms of politeness, from spoken with the See also:trunk, from which it is scarcely separated by any externally intercourse. As an address between equals it has all but vanished visible constriction or See also:neck. Nostrils valvular, See also:separate, and placed from social usage, though it is still correct in addressing a stranger above the fore-part of the obtuse, truncated muzzle. Eyes very „ small, with imperfectly formed eyelids, capable, however, of See also:con-to See also:call him Sir.” In general it is now used in Great Britain See also:traction, and with a well-developed nictitating membrane. See also:Ear as a formal style, e.g. in letters or in addressing the chairman without any See also:conch. Mouth of small or moderate size, with tumid of a See also:meeting; it is also used in speaking to an acknowledged lips beset with stiff bristles. General form of the See also:body depressed See also:superior, e.g. a servant to his master, or a subaltern to his See also:colonel. fusiform. No dorsal fin. Tail flattened and horizontally See also:expanded.

" Sir " is also the style used in addressing the king See also:

prince Fore-limbs See also:paddle-shaped, the digits being enveloped in a common g or a P cutaneous covering, though sometimes rudiments of nails are of the blood royal (the French form " Sire " is obsolete). present. No trace of See also:hind-limbs. External See also:surface covered with a In the See also:United States, on the other See also:hand, or at least in certain tough, finely wrinkled or rugous skin, naked, or with sparsely parts of it, the address is still commonly used by See also:people of all scattered See also:fine hairs. classes among themselves, no relation of inferiority or su eriorit The skeleton is remarkable for the massiveness and See also:density of g Y P Y most of the bones, especially the See also:skull and ribs, which add to the being in general implied. specific gravity of these slow-moving animals, and aid in keeping The feminine See also:equivalent of the title "sir" is legally " See also:dame" them to the bottom of the shallow See also:waters in which they dwell, while (doming); but in ordinary usage it is " See also:lady," thus recalling a feeding on mong which may be indicated the largesizeeand backward position the See also:original identity of the French sire with the English of the nasal See also:aperture, and the downward flexure of the front of both " lord." (W. A. P.) jaws.

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