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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Turk.

sam-yeli

; Ar.

samm

poison + Turk.

yel

wind. Cf.

A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the

simoom

of Arabia and the

kamsin

of Syria.

samiel ‎(plural samiels)

↑ "samiel." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2008.