Samian earth
English
Noun
Samian
earth
(
uncountable
)
(
obsolete
)
A kind of
clay
from the island of
Samos
, formerly used in medicine as an
astringent
.
References
“
Samian
”, in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
, Springfield, Mass.:
G. & C. Merriam
,
1913
,
→OCLC
.