samarskite (samarskit)

[So called after a Ru ian named Samarski.] A niobate of uranium, iron, and manganese, of a velvet-black color, sub metallic luster, and conchoidal fracture. It is found in the Ilmen mountains, also in considerable quantity in North Carolina. It has yielded a number of new elements, belonging especially to the yttrium group (decipium, philip pium, etc.), whose properties are not as yet wholly determined. samatizet, v. t. [ If they did not amend, they were excommunicated with a greater curse, or Anathema; and if they persisted obstinate, they did Samatize them. The word Anathema sometimes taken generally, but heere for a particular kinde. Maran-atha sign if i eth the Lord commeth; and so doth Sem-atha. For by Sem, and more emphatically Ha em, they vsed to signifie name, meaning that Tetragrammaton and ineffable name of God now commonly pro nounced Iehouah. same a berry-like drupe with three, four, or five small stones, It is distinguished from the related genus Viburnum by its more fleshy fruit, with more than one seed, and by its pinnately divided leaves. It includes 10 or 12 species, natives of temperate regions (except South Africa), also found upon mountains within the tropics. They are shrubs or trees, rarely perennial herbs, with rather thick and pithy branches, opposite pinnate leaves with toothed leaflets, and small white, yellow, or pinkish flowers in flat corymbs or in dense rounded ma es. Among the large species is S. glauca of the western United States, a tree 25 feet high, the large blue-black fruit edible; also S. Mexi can a of southwest, 18 feet high. The flowers of Sam bucus Can a dens is are excitant and sudorine, the berries diaphoretic and aperient; the inspi ated juice is used in rheumatism and syphilis, and as a laxative; the inner bark and juice of root is a hydragogue cathartic, emetic in large doses; the young leaf-buds are a violent purgative. For common species of the genus, see elder2, elderberry, Ju das-tree, 3, and danewort; see also bloodwort, bour -tree, and hautboy, 2.