sample room

Pope: Homer's Iliad , vii. 1. Originally a room in a hotel set apart for the use of commercial travelers; a room in which samples are displayed. 2. The retail department of a general liquor dealer's establishment, a liquor saloon; any place where liquor is sold by the drink. ( U.S. Colloq .) săm-ple, v. t. [SAMPLE, 8. ] *1. To show something similar to; to exemplify; to present a sample or specimen of. "Learning to sample earth's embrodery." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals , ii. 3. 2. To take a sample or samples. "Ale-tasters, whose duty it was to sample the various brewings."-Jennings: Curiosities of Criticism, p. 4. (1881.) săm-plěr (1), *săm'-plar, *saum-pler, s. [Old Fr. examplaire , exempla ire , from Lat. exemplar .] *1. An example, an exemplar, a pattern. "For Jesu entride not in to hooli thing is maad by hond is that ben saumpleris of verrei thing is."- Wycliffe : Ebrewis ix. 2. A piece of fancy-sewed or embroidered work done by girls for practice. "[We] with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler , sitting on one cushion." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream , iii. 2. săm-plěr (2), s. [Eng. sampl (e), v.; -er.] One who samples; one who makes up and exhibits samples of work, produce, . †sămp-sü'-chine ( p silent), s. [Gr.sampsykon.] Marjoram. "I am a nullifidian if there be not three-thirds of a scruple more of sampsuchine in this confection than I ever put in any." -Ben Jonson: Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. săm-shô, săm-shû, subst. [Chin.] A Chinese spirit distilled from rice. săm-son, s. [Prob. in reference to the post acting as a support.] (See compound.) sams on-post, sams on's post, s. 1. Ship build .: A pillar resting on the keelson and supporting a deck-beam. 2. Naut .: A spar sustained in a vertical position by guys, and used as a jib for the suspension of hoisting-tackle, for getting boats aboard, fishing the anchor, . Săm-u-el, s . [Hebrew Shemuel , contraction of Shemuael heard by God: shama , shame a = to hear, and El God ( Gesenius ); cf. 1 Sam. i. 20. Other meanings given are: Name of God, Placed by God, Asked of God.] Script. Biog.: The last of the Jewish judges []. The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel : Old Test. Canon : Now two books, but formerly a single book, of the Hebrew Scriptures. The Septuagint separated them into two, calling them Basi lei on, Prote , and Deutera =the first and second of the Kingdoms or Kings. The Vulgate, following the Septuagint, named them Liber Regum Primus et Secund us (1 & 2 Kings). In 1518 A. D. the dual arrangement was introduced into the Hebrew Bible, in which we now have (without vowel points) Sam uel A=1, and B=2. The Hebrew is very pure. Then i us, Keil, and Erdmann date it in the reign of Rehoboam, Dr. Payne Smith in that of Jehoshaphat, Haver nick in that of Solomon, and Ewald in the second half of the Babylonian exile. It has always been acknowledged as canonical, and is frequently quoted or referred to in the New Testament, especially by St. Paul (Acts xiii. 20, .), and St. Luke (Luke ii. 4; Acts vii. 45, .).