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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 Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer. Gossamer spider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

Salt; salted; saline. [R.]

Precisely the same; the very same; identical. His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Matt. viii. 13.

small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne. Open Sesame, the magical command which opened the door of the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale of "The Forty Thieves;" hence, a magical password. -- Sesame grass. (Bot.) Same as Gama grass.

Together. [Obs.] "And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame." Spenser.

, are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it t…

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

Same as Aby. [Obs.] Chaucer.

gence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberrat…

e or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

Same as Abiogenesis.