Definition of Shams

1. Noun. (plural of sham) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shams

1. sham [v] - See also: sham

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shams

shamoys
shampers
shampoo
shampoo ginger
shampooed
shampooer
shampooers
shampooey
shampooing
shampoolike
shampoos
shamrock
shamrock pea
shamrocklike
shamrocks
shams (current term)
shamshir
shamus
shamuses
shan't
shana tova
shanachie
shanachies
shand
shandies
shandite
shandries
shandry
shandrydan
shandrydans

Literary usage of Shams

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"The author was living at the time of Tamerlane's invasion to India in 1398 AD, 801 AH, whom he has mentioned in his work. shams ..."

2. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period by John Dowson, Henry Miers Elliot (1871)
"Little is known of shams-i Siraj beyond what is gleaned from his own work. ... The reason of this may be that shams-i Siraj enters more than usual into ..."

3. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: (Tartarian Tales) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, Leonard Charles Smithers (1893)
"... Astrakhan rang with a thousand acclamations of joy, which reached the palace of shams al-Din. The monarch, surprised at so uncommon a noise, ..."

4. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: (Tartarian Tales) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, Leonard Charles Smithers (1893)
"... Astrakhan rang with a thousand acclamations of joy, which reached the palace of shams al-Din. The monarch, surprised at so uncommon a noise, ..."

5. The Danville Quarterly Review (1863)
"I. — shams and Presumptions of Physical Philosophy. hold in great respect and honor, all men of true science and true philosophy of whatever kind. ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Amid a Babel of noisea and factions, he stands calm, judicial, self- contained; and minds that hate shams and love truth and beauty are reassured by his ..."

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