In fact sir, there is no disease, however painful or dangerous, whether fever, pleurisy, plague, or any other disorder, but it will instantly cure; and that in the easiest possible way; it is simply to make the sick person smell of the apple.—Arabian Nights, (“Ahmed and Pari-Banou”).
Sam´benites [Sam´.be.neetz], persons dressed in the sambenĭto, a yellow coat without sleeves, having devils painted on it. The sambenito was worn by “heretics” on their way to execution.
And blow us up i’ the open streets.
Disguised in rumps, like sambenites.
S. Butler, Hudibras, iii. 2 (1678).
Sambo, any male of the negro race.
No race has shown such capabilities of adaptation to varying soil and circumstances as the negro. Alike to them the snows of Canada, the rocky land of New England or the gorgeous profusion of the Southern States. Sambo and Cuffey expand under them all.—Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Sam´eri (Al), the proselyte who cast the golden calf at the bidding of Aaron. After he had made it, he took up some dust on which Gabriel’s horse had set its feet, threw it into the calf’s mouth, and immediately the calf became animated and began to low. Al Beidâwi says that Al Sâmeri was not really a proper name, but that the real name of the artificer was Mûsa ebn Dhafar. Selden says Al Sameri means “keeper,” and that Aaron was so called, because he was the keeper or “guardian of the people.”—Selden, De Diis Syris, i. 4 (see Al Korân, ii. notes).
Sa´mian (The Long-Haired), Pythagoras or Budda Ghooroos, a native of Samos (sixth century B.C.).
Samian He´ra. Hera or Herê, wife of Zeus, was born at Samos. She was worshipped in Egypt as well as in Greece.
Samian Sage (The) Pythagoras, born at Samos (sixth century B.C.).
’Tis enough
In this late age, adventurous to have touched
Light on the numbers of the Samian Sage.
Thomson.