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Symphys′ia, a malformation produced by the union of parts properly separate; Sym′phytism, a coalescence of word-elements.

The waters of the Sym, whose windings they followed, gurgled over their stones almost as quietly as in summer.

Whereupon the valiant better half of him who was being beaten to death called out cheerily, "Don't let him scare you, Sym!"

Sym and Barron were citizen burgesses of Edinburgh, and zealous friends of the Reformer.