SAME, s[=a]m, _adv._ (_Spens._). Same as SAM.
SAME, s[=a]m, _adj._ identical: of the like kind or degree: similar:
mentioned before.--_adj._ SAME'LY, unvaried.--_n._ SAME'NESS, the being the
same: tedious monotony.--ALL THE SAME, for all that; AT THE SAME TIME,
still, nevertheless. [A.S. _same_; Goth. _samana_; L. _similis_, like, Gr.
_homos_.]
SAMIA, s[=a]'mi-a, _n._ a genus of bombycid moths, belonging to North
America.
SAMIAN, s[=a]'mi-an, _adj._ pertaining to, or from, the island of _Samos_,
in the Greek Archipelago.--_n._ (also S[=A]'MIOT, S[=A]'MIOTE) a native of
Samos.--SAMIAN EARTH, an argillaceous astringent earth; SAMIAN STONE, a
goldsmiths' polishing-stone; SAMIAN WARE, an ancient kind of pottery,
brick-red or black, with lustrous glaze.
SAMIEL, s[=a]'mi-el, _n._ the simoom. [Turk. _samyeli_--Ar. _samm_, poison,
Turk. _yel_, wind.]
SAMISEN, sam'i-sen, _n._ a Japanese guitar.
SAMITE, sam'it, _n._ a kind of heavy silk stuff. [O. Fr. _samit_--Low L.
_examitum_--Gr. _hexamiton_, _hex_, six, _mitos_, thread.]
SAMLET, sam'let, _n._ a parr: a salmon of the first year. [Prob.
_salmon-et_.]
SAMMY, sam'i, _v.t._ to moisten skins with water.--_n._ a machine for doing
this.
SAMNITE, sam'n[=i]t, _adj._ and _n._ pertaining to an ancient Sabine people
of central Italy, crushed by the Romans after a long struggle: a Roman
gladiator armed with shield, sleeve on right arm, helmet, shoulder-piece,
and greave.
SAMOAN, sa-m[=o]'an, _adj._ and _n._ pertaining to _Samoa_ in the
Pacific.--SAMOAN DOVE, the tooth-billed pigeon.
SAMOLUS, sam'[=o]-lus, _n._ a genus of herbaceous plants of the primrose
family. [L.]
SAMOSATENIAN, sam-[=o]-sa-t[=e]'ni-an, _n._ a follower of Paul of
_Samosata_, bishop of Antioch, the Socinus of the 3d century.
SAMOTHRACIAN, sam-[=o]-thr[=a]'si-an, _adj._ belonging to the island of
_Samothrace_ in the Ægean Sea.
SAMOVAR, sam'[=o]-vär, _n._ a tea-urn used in Russia, commonly of copper,
the water in it heated by charcoal in a tube extending from top to bottom.
[Russ. _samovar[)u]_, prob. Tartar.]
SAMOYED, sa-m[=o]'yed, _n._ one of a Ural-Altaic race between the Obi and
the Yenisei.--_adj._ SAMOYED'IC.
SAMP, samp, _n._ Indian corn coarsely ground: a kind of hominy, also
porridge made from it.
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SAMPAN, sam'pan, _n._ a small boat used in China and Japan.--Also SAN'PAN.
[Chin. _san_, _sam_, three, _pan_, a board.]
SAMPHIRE, sam'f[=i]r, or sam'f[.e]r, _n._ an herb found chiefly on rocky
cliffs near the sea, used in pickles and salads. [Corr. from Fr. _Saint
Pierre_, Saint Peter.]
SAMPI, sam'p[=i], _n._ a character, [sampi] representing a sibilant in
early Greek use, later obsolete except as a numeral sign for 900.
SAMPLE, sam'pl, _n._ a specimen: a part to show the quality of the whole:
an example.--_v.t._ to make up samples of: to place side by side with: to
match: to test by examination.--_ns._ SAM'PLER, one who makes up samples
(in compounds, as _wool-sampler_); SAM'PLE-ROOM, a room where samples are
shown: (_slang_) a grog-shop; SAM'PLE-SCALE, an accurately balanced
lever-scale for weighing ten-thousandths of a pound. [Short for _esample_,
from O. Fr. _essample_--L. _exemplum_, example.]
SAMPLER, sam'pl[.e]r, _n._ a pattern of work: a piece of ornamental
embroidery, worsted-work, &c., containing names, figures, texts, &c.--_n._
SAM'PLARY (_obs._), a pattern, an example. [Formed from L. _exemplar_.]
SAMPSUCHINE, samp-s[=oo]'ch[=e]n, _n._ (_obs._) sweet marjoram.
SAMSHOO, SAMSHU, sam'sh[=oo], _n._ an ardent spirit distilled by the
Chinese from rice: any kind of spirits. [Chin. _san_, _sam_, three, _shao_,
to fire.]
SAMSON-POST, sam'son-p[=o]st, _n._ a strong upright stanchion or post for
various uses on board ship.
SAMURAI, sam'[=oo]-r[=i], _n. sing._ (also _pl._) a member of the military
class in the old feudal system of Japan, including both daimios, or
territorial nobles, and their military retainers: a military retainer, a
two-sworded man. [Jap.]
SAMYDA, sam'i-da, _n._ a genus of shrubs, native to the West Indies. [Gr.
_s[=e]myda_, the birch.]
SANABLE, san'a-bl, _adj._ able to be made sane or sound: curable.--_ns._
SANABIL'ITY, SAN'ABLENESS, capability of being cured; SAN[=A]'TION
(_obs._), a healing or curing.--_adj._ SAN'ATIVE, tending, or able, to
heal: healing.--_ns._ SAN'ATIVENESS; SANAT[=O]'RIUM (see SANITARY).--_adj._
SAN'ATORY, healing: conducive to health. [L. _sanabilis_--_san[=a]re_,
_-[=a]tum_, to heal.]
SANBENITO, san-be-n[=e]'t[=o], _n._ a garment grotesquely decorated with
flames, devils, &c., worn by the victims of the Inquisition--at an
_auto-de-fe_--for public recantation or execution. [Sp., from its
resemblance in shape to the garment of the order of _St Benedict_--Sp. _San
Benito_.]
SANCHO, sang'k[=o], _n._ a musical instrument like the guitar, used by
negroes.
SANCHO-PEDRO, sang'k[=o]-p[=e]'dr[=o], _n._ a game of cards--the nine of
trumps called _Sancho_, the five _Pedro_.
SANCTIFY, sangk'ti-f[=i], _v.t._ to make sacred or holy: to set apart to
sacred use: to free from sin or evil: to consecrate: to invest with a
sacred character: to make efficient as the means of holiness: to secure
from violation:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ sanc'tif[=i]ed.--_n._ SANCTANIM'ITY,
holiness of mind.--_v.t._ SANCTIF'IC[=A]TE.--_n._ SANCTIFIC[=A]'TION, act
of sanctifying: state of being sanctified: that work or process of God's
free grace whereby the new principle of spiritual life implanted in
regeneration is developed until the whole man is renewed in the image of
God: consecration.--_adj._ SANC'TIFIED, made holy: sanctimonious.--_adv._
SANCTIF[=I]'EDLY, sanctimoniously.--_n._ SANC'TIFIER, one who sanctifies:
the Holy Spirit.--_adv._ SANC'TIFYINGLY.--_adj._ SANCTIM[=O]'NIOUS, having
sanctity: holy, devout: affecting holiness.--_adv._
SANCTIM[=O]'NIOUSLY.--_ns._ SANCTIM[=O]'NIOUSNESS, SANC'TIMONY, affected
devoutness, show of sanctity; SANC'TITUDE, holiness, goodness, saintliness:
affected holiness; SANC'TITY, quality of being sacred or holy: purity:
godliness: inviolability: a saint, any holy object.--_v.t._ SANC'TUARISE
(_Shak._), to shelter by sacred privileges, as in a sanctuary.--_ns._
SANC'T[=U]ARY, a sacred place: a place for the worship of God: the most
sacred part of the Temple of Jerusalem: the Temple itself: the part of a
church round the altar: an inviolable asylum, refuge, a consecrated place
which gives protection to a criminal taking refuge there: the privilege of
taking refuge in such a consecrated place; SANC'TUM, a sacred place: a
private room; SANC'TUS, the ascription, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of
Hosts,' from Isa. vi.: a musical setting of the same.--SANCTUM SANCTORUM,
the Holy of Holies: any specially reserved retreat or room.--ODOUR OF
SANCTITY, the aroma of goodness. [Fr.,--L. _sanctific[=a]re_,
_-[=a]tum_--_sanctus_, sacred, _fac[)e]re_, to make.]
SANCTION, sangk'shun, _n._ act of ratifying, or giving authority to:
confirmation: support: a decree, a law.--_v.t._ to give validity to: to
authorise: to countenance.--_adjs._ SANC'TIONABLE; SANC'TIONARY. [Fr.,--L.
_sanct[=i]re_.]
SAND, sand, _n._ fine particles of crushed or worn rocks, used in founding:
force of character: (_pl._) lands covered with sand: a sandy beach: moments
of time, from the use of sand in the hour-glass.--_v.t._ to sprinkle with
sand.--_ns._ SAND'-BAG (_fort._), a canvas bag filled with sand or earth,
forming a ready means of giving cover against an enemy's fire, or of
tamping the charge in a mine: an engraver's leather cushion, &c.;
SAND'-BAG'GER, a robber who uses a sand-bag to stun his victims;
SAND'-BALL, a ball of soap mixed with fine sand for the toilet; SAND'-BAND,
a guard-ring to keep sand from working into the axle-box; SAND'-BANK, a
bank of sand formed by tides and currents; SAND'-BATH, a vessel of hot sand
for heating vessels without direct exposure to the fire: a bath in which
the body is covered with warm sea-sand: saburration; SAND'-BEAR, the Indian
badger; SAND'-BED, the bed into which the iron from the blast-furnace is
run; SAND'-BIRD, a sandpiper: a shore bird; SAND'-BLAST, sand driven by a
blast of air or steam for cutting and engraving figures on glass or
metal.--_adj._ SAND'-BLIND, afflicted with partial blindness, in which
particles of sand seem to float before the eyes.--_ns._ SAND'-BLIND'NESS;
SAND'-BLOW'ER, a sand bellows; SAND'-BOX, a box with a perforated top for
sprinkling sand on writing, a contrivance formerly used by way of
blotting-paper: a box with sand to prevent the wheels of a rail from
slipping; SAND'-BRAKE, a device for stopping trains automatically;
SAND'-BUG, a burrowing crustacean: a digger-wasp; SAND'-BUR, a weed found
in the plains of the western United States; SAND'-CANAL', the stone canal
of an echinoderm; SAND'-CHERR'Y, the dwarf cherry; SAND'-COCK, the
redshank; SAND'-CRAB, the lady-crab; SAND'-CRACK, a crack in a horse's
hoof: a crack in a moulded brick before burning; SAND'-CRICK'ET, a name
applied to certain large crickets in the western United States; SAND'-DAB,
a kind of plaice; SAND'-DART, a British noctuid moth; SAND'-DART'ER,
-DIV'ER, a small etheostomine fish of the Ohio valley; SAND'-DOLL'AR, a
flat sea-urchin; SAND'-DRIFT, a mound of drifted sand; SAND'-DUNE, a ridge
of loose sand drifted by the wind.--_adj._ SAND'ED (_Shak._), marked with
yellow spots: sprinkled with sand: short-sighted.--_ns._ SAND'-EEL, a small
eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand when the tide retires;
SAND'ERLING, a genus of birds of the snipe family, characterised by the
absence of a hind-toe, common on the coast, eating marine worms, small
crustaceans, and bivalve molluscs; SAND'-FENCE, a barrier in a stream of
stakes and iron wire; SAND'-FISH, a fish of the genus Trichodon;
SAND'-FLAG, sandstone which splits up into flagstones; SAND'-FLEA, the
chigoe or jigger; SAND'-FLOOD, a moving mass of desert sand;
SAND'-FLOUN'DER, a common North American flounder; SAND'-FLY, a small New
England biting midge; SAND'-GLASS, a glass instrument for measuring time by
the running out of sand; SAND'-GRASS, grass that grows by the sea-shore;
SAND'-GROUSE, a small order of birds, quite distinct from the true grouse,
having two genera, _Pterocles_ and _Syrrhaptes_, with beautiful plumage,
heavy body, long and pointed wings, very short legs and toes; SAND'-HEAT,
the heat of warm sand in chemical operations; SAND'-HILL, a hill of sand;
SAND'-HILL CRANE, the brown crane of North America; SAND'-HILL'ER, one of
the poor whites living in the sandy hills of Georgia; SAND'-HOP'PER, a
small crustacean in the order _Amphipoda_, often seen on the sandy
sea-shore, like swarms of dancing flies, leaping up by bending the body
together, and throwing it out with a sudden jerk: a sand-flea;
SAND'-HORN'ET, a sand-wasp; SAND'INESS, sandy quality, esp. as regards
colour; SAND'ING, the process of testing the surface of gilding, after it
has been fired, with fine sand and water: the process of burying oysters in
sand.--_adj._ SAND'ISH (_obs._).--_ns._ SAND'-JET (see SAND'-BLAST);
SAND'-LARK, a wading-bird that runs along the sand: a sandpiper;
SAND'-LIZ'ARD, a common lizard; SAND'-LOB, the common British lug or lob
worm; SAND'-MAR'TIN, the smallest of British swallows, which builds its
nest in sandy river-banks and gravel-pits; SAND'-M[=A]'SON, a common
British tube-worm; SAND'-MOLE, a South African rodent; SAND'-MOUSE, the
dunlin: a sandpiper; SAND'-NATT'ER, a sand-snake; SAND'-P[=A]'PER, paper
covered with a kind of sand for smoothing and polishing; SAND'-PEEP, the
American stint: the peetweet; SAND'-PERCH, the grass-bass; SAND'PIPER, a
wading-bird of the snipe family, which frequents sandy river-banks,
distinguished by its clear piping note.--_n.pl._ SAND'-PIPES, perpendicular
cylindrical hollows, tapering to a point, occurring in chalk deposits, and
so called from being usually filled with sand, gravel, or clay.--_ns._
SAND'-PIT, a place from which sand is extracted; SAND'-PLOV'ER, a
ring-necked plover; SAND'-PRIDE, a very small species of lamprey found in
the rivers of Britain; SAND'-PUMP, a long cylinder with valved piston for
use in drilling rocks--a SAND'-SLUDG'ER: a sand-ejector, modified from the
jet-pump, used in caissons for sinking the foundations of bridges;
SAND'-RAT, a geomyoid rodent, esp. the camass rat; SAND'-REED, a shore
grass; SAND'-REEL, a windlass used in working a sand-pump; SAND'-RIDGE, a
sand-bank; SAND'-ROLL, a metal roll cast in sand; SAND'-RUN'NER, a
sandpiper; SAND'-SAU'CER, a round mass of agglutinated egg-capsules of a
naticoid gasteropod, found on beaches; SAND'-SCOOP, a dredge for scooping
up sand; SAND'-SCREEN, a sand-sifter; SAND'-SCREW, an amphipod which
burrows in the sand; SAND'-SHARK, a small voracious shark; SAND'-SHOT,
small cast-iron balls cast in sand; SAND'-SHRIMP, a shrimp; SAND'-SKINK, a
European skink found in sandy places; SAND'-SKIP'PER, a beach flea;
SAND'-SNAKE, a short-tailed boa-like serpent; SAND'-SNIPE, the sandpiper;
SAND'-SPOUT, a moving pillar of sand; SAND'STAR, a starfish: a brittle
star; SAND'-STONE, a rock formed of compacted and more or less indurated
sand (OLD RED SANDSTONE, a name given to a series of strata--along with the
parallel but nowhere coexisting _Devonian_--intermediate in age between the
Silurian and Carboniferous systems); SAND'-STORM, a storm of wind carrying
along clouds of sand; SAND'-SUCK'ER, the rough dab; SAND'-THROW'ER, a tool
for throwing sand on newly sized or painted surfaces; SAND'-TRAP, a device
for separating sand from running water; SAND'-V[=I]'PER, a hog-nosed snake;
SAND'-WASHER, an apparatus for separating sand from earthy substances;
SAND'-WASP, a digger-wasp.--_v.t._ SAND'-WELD, to weld iron with
sand.--_ns._ SAND'-WORM, a worm that lives in the sand; SAND'-WORT, any
plant of the genus _Arenaria_.--_adj._ SAND'Y, consisting of, or covered
with, sand: loose: of the colour of sand.--_n._ a nick-name for a Scotsman
(from _Alexander_).--_ns._ SAND'Y-CAR'PET, a geometrid moth;
SAND'Y-LAV'EROCK (_Scot._), a sand-lark. [A.S. _sand_; Dut. _zand_, Ger.
_sand_, Ice. _sand-r_.]
SANDAL, san'dal, _n._ a kind of shoe consisting of a sole bound to the foot
by straps: a loose slipper: a half-boot of white kid: a strap for fastening
a slipper: an india-rubber shoe.--_adj._ SAN'DALLED, wearing sandals:
fastened with such. [Fr.,--L. _sandalium_--Gr. _sandalon_, prob. from
Pers.]