in restoring Nouroun'nihar to perfect
health, although at the very point of death.

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 _samben[)i]to_, 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 Beid[^a]wi says that Al
S[^a]meri was not really a proper name, but that the real name of the
artificer was M[^u]sa 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 Kor[^a]n_, ii.
notes).

=Sa'mian= (_The Long-Haired_), Pythagoras or Budda Ghooroos, a native of
Samos (sixth century B.C.).

=Samian He'ra.= Hera or Her[^e], wife of Zeus, was born at Samos. She was
worshipped in Egypt as well as in Greece.

=Samian Sage= (_The_)[TN-158] 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.

=Samias'a=, a seraph, in love with Aholiba'mah, the granddaughter of Cain.
When the Flood came, the seraph carried off his _innamorata_ to another
planet.--Byron, _Heaven and Earth_ (1819).

=Sa'miel=, the Black Huntsman of the Wolf's Glen, who gave to Der
Freisch[:u]tz seven balls, six of which were to hit whatever the marksman
aimed at,