satn 
= OHG. xitiiiaHtiii, MHG. samenen, sauieii, li. 
sammeln = Icel. samiia- = Sw. samla = Dan. 
xiniile), collect, gather, bring together, < KIIIHI-II. 
together: seo name.] If. To bring together; 
collect ; put in. order. 
But gamme cure men and make a schowte, 
So schall we beste yone foolis flaye. 
York Plays, p. 488. 
2. To curdle (milk). Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
sam- (sam), . [Origin uncertain ; cf. sam 1 .] 
Apparently, surety: used only in the following 
phrase To stand sam for one, to be answerable or 
be surety or security for one. HattUMB. [Prov. Eng. ) 
Samadera (sarn-a-de'ra), n. [NL. (Gaertner, 
1802), from an E. Ind. name.] See Samuniluni. 
Samadera bark. See 6ar*2. 
saman, n. See Pithecolobium. 
Samandura (sa-man'du-ra), n. [NL. (Linnee- 
us, 1747), from an E. Ind. 'name.] A genus of 
polypetalous trees of the order Simarubaeetr 
and tribe Simarubeee, formerly known as Sama- 
ilera . It is characterized by bisexual flowers with a small 
three- to five parted calyx, greatly exceeded by the three 
to five long rigid petals ; by a large obconical disk, six to 
ten included stamens, and four to five separated ovary- 
lobes with their styles united into one, and with a single 
pendulous ovary in each cell, the fruit being a large, dry, 
compressed, and rigid drupe. The 2 species are natives, 
one of Ceylon and the Malay archipelago, the other of 
Madagascar. They are small and smooth trees, with al- 
ternate undivided leaves, which are oblong, entire, and of 
a shining dark green. The flowers, borne in an umbel, are 
rather large and showy. See karinghota and niepa-bark. 
samara (sa-mar'a or sam'a-ra), n. [L., also xa- 
mera, the seed of the elm.] In lot., a dry, inde- 
hiscent, usually one-seeded 
fruit provided with a wing. 
The wing may be terminal, as in the 
white ash, or it may surround the 
entire fruit, as in the elm and birch. 
The maple-fruit is a double samara, 
or pair of such fruits conspicuously 
winged from the apex. It is fre- 
quently called in English a key. 
Also called key-fruit, pteridium. 
samare(sa-mar'),w. [OF.sa- 
iiHtrre, chamarre (Cot-grave) : 
see simar.'] 1. A sort of 
jacket with skirts or tails 
extending about to the knee, 
worn by women in the seven- 
teenth century. 2. Same as 
simar, in the general sense. 
samar if orm (sam ' a-ri-f 6rm ) , 
a. [< NL. samara, q. v., + 
Is. forma, form.] In hot., hav- 
ing the form of a samara. 
Samaritan (sa-mar'i-tan), a. and . [< LL. 
Samaritanus, Samaritan, < Samarites, < Gr. 
ZaftapetTrK, a Samaritan, < Za/idpeta, L. Sama- 
ria, Samaria.] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to 
Samaria, the central division of Palestine, ly- 
ing north of Judea, or the city of Samaria, the 
capital of the kingdom of northern Israel. 2. 
Used by the Samaritans : applied to the charac- 
ters of a kind of ancient Hebrew writing prob- 
ably in use before, and partly after, the Babylo- 
nian exile Samaritan Pentateuch. See Bible, l. 
II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Sa- 
maria; specifically, one of a race settled in the 
cities of Samaria by the king of Assyria after 
the removal of the Israelites from the country 
(2 Ki. xvii. 24-41). Originally idolaters, they soon 
began to worship Jehovah, but without abandoning their 
former gods. They afterward became mouotheists, and 
observed the Mosaic law very strictly, but with peculiar 
variations. About 409 B. c. they built a temple on Mount 
Gerizirn, which was destroyed 130 B. c. They began to 
decline toward the close of the fifth century after Christ. 
They still exist, but are nearly extinct. 
The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. 
John iv. 9. 
2. The language of Samaria, a compound of 
Hebrew, Syriac, andChaldee. 3. A charitable 
or benevolent person : in allusion to the char- 
acter of the "good Samaritan" in the parable 
Luke x. 30-37. 
Samaritanism (sa-mar'i-tan-izm), . [< Sa- 
maritan + -ism. ] 1. The claim of the Samari- 
tans that the Jews were schismatics, the true 
site of God's sanctuary and worship being 
Mount Gerizim in Samaria (and not Mount 
Zion), as shown in their copy of the Penta- 
teuch, which in Deut. xxvii. 4 reads Gcrhini 
for Ebal. 
The Samaritans must . . . have derived their Penta- 
teuch from the Jews after Ezra's reforms, i. e. after 444 
B. c. Before that time Samaritanism cannot have existed 
in a form at all similar to that which we know. 
Encyc. Brit., XXI. 244. 
2. An idiom or expression peculiar to the Sa- 
maritans, or to their version of the Pentateuch, 
which they asserted to be older than the Jew- 
Samara of (a} Fraxi- 
ntis mercana, (*) UL- 
mus fulva, and (<) Be. 
tula lenta. 
5323 
ish. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 582. 3. Charita- 
bleness ; philanthropy ; benevolence, like that 
of the good Samaritan. 
Mankind are getting mad with humanity and Samari- 
tanism. Sydney Smith, Letters, 1SI4. 
Samaritan's balsam. A mixture of wine and 
oil, formerly used in treating wounds. 
samarium (sa-ma'ri-um), n. [NL., as if < nuiu- 
OfS&ife.] The name given by Lecoq de Bois- 
baudran to a metal which he supposed he had 
discovered in the mineral samarskite by the 
aid of the spectroscope. Nothing further is 
known of it, nor has its existence been, as yet, 
definitely established. 
samaroid (sam'a-roid), a. [< NL. samara + 
-oid.'] Resembling a samara. See samara. 
samarra (sa-mar'a), . [ML., a garment worn 
by persons condemned by the Inquisition on 
tneir way to execution, a sanbenito : see samare, 
simar.] Same as simar. 
samarskite (sam'ars-klt), . [So called after 
a Russian named Samarslci.'] A niobate of 
uranium, iron, and manganese, of a velvet-black 
color, submetallic luster, and conchoidal frac- 
ture. It is found in the Jhm-n mountains, also in consid- 
erable quantity in North Carolina. It has yielded a num- 
ber of new elements, belonging especially to the yttrium 
group (decipium, philippium, etc.), whose properties are 
not as yet wholly determined. 
samatizet, f. t. [< sem-atlia (see quot.) + -ize.] 
To anathematize or excommunicate in a par- 
ticular way. See the quotation. [Rare.] 
If they did not amend, they were excommunicated with 
a greater curse, or Anathema ; and if they persisted ob- 
stinate, they did Samatize them. The word Anathema is 
sometimes taken generally, but heere for a particular 
kinde. Maran-atha signifteth the Lord commeth; and so 
doth Sem-atha. For by Sen), and more emphatically Has 
sera, they vsed to signifle name, meaning that Tetragram- 
maton and ineffable name of God now commonly pro- 
nounced lehouah. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 113. 
Samaveda (sa-ma-va'da), n. [Skt. Samaveda, 
< saman, a Vedic stanza arranged for chant- 
ing, + Veda, Veda.] The name of one of the 
four Vedas, or sacred books of India. The 
Samaveda means the Veda containing samans 
or hymns for chanting. 
sambhur, n. See sambur. 
sambo, zambo (sam'bo, zam'bo), . [Also used 
as a personal name for a negro; appar. < Sp. 
zambo = Pg. zambro, bow-legged, < L. scambus, 
bow-legged, < Gr. OKa[t/16r;, crooked, bent, bow- 
legged.] The offspring of a black person and 
a mulatto. 
samboo (sam'bo), . [E. Ind.] Same as sambur. 
sambook (sam'bok), n. [Ar.] Akind of small 
vessel formerly used in western India and still 
on the Arabian coast. Yule and Burnell, Anglo- 
Ind. Gloss. 
sambuca (sam-bu'ka), . [L. : see sambuke.] 
Same as sambuke. 
Sambuceae (sam-bu'se-e), n. pi. [NL. (Hum- 
boldt, Bonpland, and kunth, 1818), < Sambucus 
+ -ese.] A tribe of gamopetalpus plants of the 
order Caprifoliaceee, distinguished from the 
other tribe, Lonicerese, by the wheel-shaped 
regular corolla, short and deeply two- to five- 
cleft style, and the uniformly one-ovuled ovary- 
cells. It includes 3 genera and nearly 100 species, of 
which Sambucus, the elder, is the type, natives chiefly 
of temperate regions. 
Sambucus (sam-bu'kus), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 
1700), < L. sambucus, sabucus, an elder-tree ; cf . 
nambucum, elderberry.] A genus of gamopeta- 
Branch with Inflorescence of Elder (Sambucus Canaetcnsis). 
a, part of the inflorescence ; b, fruits. 
lous trees and shrubs, the elders, type of the 
tribe Seantrueete, order Capnfoliacese, the honey- 
suckle family. It is characterized by corymbose or 
thyrsoid flowers having wheel-shaped corollas, five en- 
tire stamens, and an ovary with three, four, or rive cells, 
each with a single pendulous ovule, followed in fruit by 
same 
a berry-like drupe with three, four, or five small stones. 
It is distinguished from the related genus Viburnum by 
its more fleshy fruit, with more than one seed, and by 
its pinnately divided leaves. It includes 10 or 12 spe- 
cies, natives of temperate regions (except South Africa), 
also found upon mountains within the tropics. '1 hey are 
shrubs or trees, rarely perennial herbs, with rather thick 
and pithy branches, opposite pinnule leaves with toothed 
leaflets, and small white, yellow, or pinkish flowers in flat 
corymbs or in dense rounded masses. Among the large 
species is S. i/lauca of the western United States, a tree 2.1 
feet high, the large blue-black fruit edible ; also S. Mexi- 
cana of the southwest, 18 feet high. The flowers of Sam- 
bucus Canadenris are excitant and sudorific, the berries 
diaphoretic and aperient ; the inspissated juice is used in 
rheumatism and syphilis, and as a laxative ; the inner bark 
and juice of root is a hydragogue cathartic, emetic in large 
doses; the young leaf-buds are a violent purgative. For 
common species of the genus, see elder'-*, elderberry, Jit- 
das-tree, 8, and danewort ; see also bloodwort, bour-tree, and 
hautboy, 2. 
sambuke (sam'buk), n. [< L. sambuca, < Gr. 
aa/jfivKT/, < Syrian sabkd, Heb. sabeka, a stringed 
musical instrument.] An ancient musical in- 
strument, probably a large harp, used in Asia 
and introduced into Italy by the Romans. The 
name has been applied to various stringed Instruments, 
such as a lyre, a dulcimer, and a triangular harp, or trigon. 
Stainer atid Barrett. 
And whatsoever ye judge, this I am sure, that lutes, 
harps, all manner of pipes, barbitons, sambukeg, with other 
instruments every one, which standeth by fine and quick 
fingering, be condemned of Aristotle, as not to be brought 
in and used among them which study for learning and 
virtue. Acham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 20. 
sambul (sam'bul), n. Same as musk-root, 1. 
sambur (sam'ber), . [Hind, sambre, < Skt. 
yambara, a kind of deer.] The Indian elk, 
Susa aristotelis, a very large rusine deer in- 
habiting the hill-COtnitnr of India, it stands 
about 5 feet high at the shoulders, and has a mane. See 
Rusa. Also samboo, gambhur. 
sam-clotht (sam'kloth), n. [Appar. abbr. of 
sampler-cloth .~\ A sampler. Diet, of Needle- 
work. 
samet (sam), adi\ [< ME. same, gamme, samen ; 
< (a) AS. same, similarly, in the same way, used 
only in combination with swd, so, as (swd same 
swa, the same as); cf. sam, conj., whether, or 
(sam . . . sam, whether ... or) ; as a prefix 
gam-, denoting agreement or combination; = 
OS. sama-gamo, same = MLG. same, sum = OHG. 
sama, MHG. same, sam, adv., the same, like- 
wise ; (6) AS. samen, together, = OS. saman = 
OPries. semin, samin. samen = MLG. samene = 
OHG. samant, MHG. sament, samt, G. samt, 
sammt, su-sammen, together, together with, = 
Icel. saman = 8w. gam-man = Dan. sammen = 
Goth, samana, together, = Russ. samnn, toge- 
ther; (c) as an adj. not in AS., but of Scand. 
origin, < Icel. samr = Sw. samma, samme = 
Dan. samme = OHG. sam = Goth, sama, the 
same ; = Gr. afta, at the same time, together. 
ii/iof, the same (> ouoim;, like), = Skt. sama, 
even, like, equal; cf. Skt. sa (in comp.), with. 
sam, with; L. simul, together, similis, similar: 
see simultaneous, similar, etc.] Together. 
So ryde thay of by resoun hi the rygge bonez, 
Euenden to the haunche, that henged alle samen, 
& heuen hit vp al hole, & hwen hit of there. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1345. 
On foote A on faire no-rose fought thei samme. 
Alimunder o/ M acedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 342. 
For what concord han light and darke sam? 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
same (sam), a. [< ME. same, < Icel. samr = Sw. 
samma, samme = Dan. samme = OHG. sam = 
Goth, sama, the same: see some, orfc.] 1. Iden- 
tical numerically ; one in substance ; not other ; 
always preceded by the definite article or other 
definitive word (this or that). In this sense, same 
is predicable only of substances (things or persons), or of 
other kinds of objects which, having individuality, are for 
the purposes of speech analogous to individual things, 
especially places and times. It is a relative term, imply- 
ing that what comes to mind in one connection and what 
comes to mind in another connection are one individual 
or set of individuals in existence. 
The very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his 
chain cozened him of it. Skak., M. W. of W., iv. 5. 37. 
There was another bridge . . . built by the same man 
at the same time. Coryat, Crudities, I. 29. 
The very same dragoons ran away at Falkirk that ran 
away at Preston Pans. Walpole, Letters, II. 3. 
2. Of one nature or general character; of one 
kind, degree, or amount : as, we see in men 
everywhere the same passions and the same 
vices; two flames that are the same in temper- 
ature; two bodies of the same dimensions; 
boxes that occupy the same space. Same, used in 
this way, expresses less a different meaning from def. 1. 
than a different (and often loose) mode of thinking : the 
thought is often that of equality rather than that of Iden- 
tity. 
Those things, says the Philosopher, are the same whose 
essence are one and the same. . . . Those things are said 
