Sig`il*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [L., from sigillum a seal. See Sigil.] Rom. Antic.

Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

 

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Sig`il*la"ri*a, n. [NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum a seal.] Paleon.

A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

 

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