samite (sam it)

[ Ful yonge he was and mery of thought, And in samette with briddes wrought. Rom. of the Rose , 1. 836. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 109. In widewes habit large of samyt broune. In silken samite she was light arayd. Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 13. To say of any silken ti ue that it was "examitum" or " sam it " meant that it was six-threaded, and therefore costly and splendid. This splendid web was often so thick and strong that each string, whether it happened to be of hemp or of silk, had in the warp six threads, while the weft was of flat gold shreds. S. K. Handbook , Textile Fabrics, p. 25. samlet (sam'let), n. [Perhaps a var. of sal monet , dim. of salmon .] A salmonet; a parr; a young salmon of the first year. It is said that, after he is got into the sea, he becomes, from a Samlet not so big as a Gudgeon, to be a Salmon, in as short a time as a gosling becomes to be a goose. I. Walton , Complete Angler, i. 7.