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Definition of Samiel
1. Noun. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
Definition of Samiel
1. n. 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.
Definition of Samiel
1. Noun. A hot desert wind, simoom. ¹
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Definition of Samiel
1. the simoom [n -S] - See also: simoom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Samiel
Literary usage of Samiel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"THE samiel prevails only on the confines of the great desert, ... The effects of
the samiel are instant suffocation to every living creature that happens to ..."
2. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... be at the disposal of samiel. (Sec SAMAEL.)—Weber, Der Freischütz (libretto
by Kind, 1822). samiel "Wind (The), the simoom. Burning iuid headlong ы the ..."
3. The Great Cities of the Middle Ages; Or, The Landmarks of European by Theodore Alois Buckley (1853)
"This heat is in a great measure caused by the hot wind called the " samiel,"
which drives the inhabitants into the cellars, where they remain during the ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"The invention of five letters of the Greek alphabet, ,i, £, 1,4, a. is attributed
to him. SIMOOM, or samiel (that is,poison); ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"SIMOOM, or samiel (that is, poison); a noxious, hot wind, wh,ch blows at the
period of the equinoxes, on the borders of Arabia, in the neighborhood of Mecca ..."
6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"THE samiel prevails only on the confines of the great desert, ... The effects of
the samiel are instant suffocation to every living creature that happens to ..."
7. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... be at the disposal of samiel. (Sec SAMAEL.)—Weber, Der Freischütz (libretto
by Kind, 1822). samiel "Wind (The), the simoom. Burning iuid headlong ы the ..."
8. The Great Cities of the Middle Ages; Or, The Landmarks of European by Theodore Alois Buckley (1853)
"This heat is in a great measure caused by the hot wind called the " samiel,"
which drives the inhabitants into the cellars, where they remain during the ..."
9. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"The invention of five letters of the Greek alphabet, ,i, £, 1,4, a. is attributed
to him. SIMOOM, or samiel (that is,poison); ..."
10. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"SIMOOM, or samiel (that is, poison); a noxious, hot wind, wh,ch blows at the
period of the equinoxes, on the borders of Arabia, in the neighborhood of Mecca ..."
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