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Together. [Obs.] "All in that city sam." Spenser.

A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

See Simar.

Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine. -- n.

A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.

Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.

See Simar.

A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

A colloquial or humorous appelation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.

Same as Sumbur.

A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.

An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).

Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged. Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Ps. cii. 27.

Sameness, 2. [R.] Bayne.

The state of being the same, identity; abscence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley.

See Samite. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.

Samian.