Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CI'ON, n. [Fr. cion or scion. Different modes of spelling the same word are very inconvenient; and whatever may have been the original orthography of this word, cion, the most simple, is well established, and is here adopted.]

A young shoot, twig or sprout of a tree, or plant, or rather the cutting of a twig, intended for ingrafting on another stock; also, the shoot or slip inserted in a stock for propagation.