for sisters. A vulgar pronunciation sometimes heard from uneducated preachers at the West.
"Brethurn and sisturn, it's a powerful great work, this here preaching of the gospel, as the great apostle hisself allows in them words of hissin what's jest come into my mind; for I never knowed what to preach till I ris up."--Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 203.