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Sa"mi*el [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.
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