Samandura (samandura)

[NL. (Linnse 5323 ish. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 582.-3. Charitablene ; ; philanthropy; benevolence, like that of the good Samaritan. Mankind are getting mad with humanity and Samari- tanism . Sydney Smith , Letters, 1844. Samaritan's balsam. A mixture of wine and oil, formerly used in treating wounds. samarium (sa-ma'ri-um), n. [NL., as if sam- arskite .] The name given by Lecoq de Bois- baudran to a metal which he supposed he had discovered in the mineral samarskite by the aid of the spectroscope. Nothing further is known of it, nor has its existence been, as yet, definitely established. samaroid (sam'a-roid), a. [ samara . samarra (sa-mar'ä), n . [ML., a garment worn by persons condemned by the Inquisition on us, 1747), from an E. Ind. name.]. Si genus of their way to execution, a sanbenito: see samare, polypetalous trees of the order Sima rubaceӕ and tribe Simarubeæ, formerly known as Sama der a. It is characterized by bisexual flowers with a small three to five-parted calyx, greatly exceeded by the three to five long rigid petals; by a large obconical disk, six to ten included stamens, and four to five separated ovary lobes with their styles united into one, and with a single pendulous ovary in each cell, the fruit being a large, dry, compre ed, and rigid drupe. The 2 species are natives, one of Ceylon and the Malay archipelago, the other of Madagascar. They are small and smooth trees, with al ternate undivided leaves, which are oblong, entire, and of a shining dark green. The flowers, borne in an umbel, are rather large and showy. See karinghota and niepa - bark. samara (sā-mar'ä or sam'a-rä), n. [L., also sa mera, the seed of the elm.] In bot., a dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded fruit provided with a wing. The wing may be terminal, as in the white ash, or it may surround the entire fruit, as in the elm and birch. The maple-fruit is a double samara, or pair of such fruits conspicuously winged from the apex. It is frequently called in English a key. Also called key - fruit, pteridium. samare (sa-mär'), n. [OF.samarre, chamarre (Cotgrave): see simar.] 1. A sort of jacket with skirts or tails extending about to the knee, worn by women in the seventeenth century.-2. Same as simar, in the general sense. samariform (sam'a-ri-fôrm), a. [ IMG:content-0057.png:[ocr errors] Samara of (a) Fraxi nus American a, (b) Ul mus fulva, and (c) Be tula lent a.