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  • English Word Salvo Definition A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
  • English Word Salvor Definition One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
  • English Word Salvos Definition of Salvo
  • English Word Sam Definition Together.
  • English Word Samaj Definition A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
  • English Word Samara Definition A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
  • English Word Samare Definition See Simar.
  • English Word Samaritan Definition Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
  • English Word Samaritan Definition A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
  • English Word Samarium Definition A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.
  • English Word Samaroid Definition Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.
  • English Word Samarra Definition See Simar.
  • English Word Samarskite Definition A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.
  • English Word Sambo Definition A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
  • English Word Samboo Definition Same as Sambur.
  • English Word Sambucus Definition A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.
  • English Word Sambuke Definition An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.
  • English Word Sambur Definition An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).
  • English Word Same Definition Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
  • English Word Same Definition Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
  • English Word Same Definition Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
  • English Word Sameliness Definition Sameness, 2.
  • English Word Sameness Definition The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
  • English Word Sameness Definition Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
  • English Word Samette Definition See Samite.
  • English Word Samian Definition Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
  • English Word Samian Definition A native or inhabitant of Samos.
  • English Word Samiel Definition 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.
  • English Word Samiot Definition Samian.
  • English Word Samite Definition A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.