SAMIEL

samiel. Samiel, n. a hot and fatal wind in Arabia

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Sa″mi‐el (?; 277), n. [[Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison + Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.]] 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.