Noah Webster
Sister
SIS'TER, noun
1. A female born of the same patents; correlative to brother.
2. A woman of the same faith; a female fellow christian. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food. James 2:15.
3. A female of the same kind.
4. One of the same kind, or of the same condition; as sister-fruits.
5. A female of the same society; as the nuns of a convent.
SIS'TER, verb transitive To resemble closely.
SIS'TER, verb intransitive To be akin; to be near to. [Little Used.]