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Silliman

[ sil-uh-muhn ]

noun

  1. Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.


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Example Sentences

“He was not the trigger-puller,” says Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor.

A militia force of five hundred had been hastily collected by Generals Wooster and Silliman.

It is said that on hearing the younger Silliman lecture, an enthusiastic auditor exclaimed, "Why, he beats the old gent!"

Professor Silliman possessed another fine one, seven inches in length.

A curious result happened to the elder Silliman when experimenting with a Peruvian emerald before the compound blowpipe.

Here he found delight in renewing his studies of galvanism and electricity under Professor Silliman.

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