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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shammy \Sham"my\, n. [F. chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See {Chamois}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The chamois. 2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See {Shamoying}. [Written also {chamois}, {shamoy}, and {shamois}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chamois \Cham"ois\, n. [F. chamois, prob. fr OG gamz, G. gemse.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A small species of antelope ({Rupicapra tragus}), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase. 2. A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also {chamois leather}, and {chammy} or {shammy leather}. See {Shammy}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chamois n 1: a soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin [syn: {chamois leather}, {chammy}, {chammy leather}, {shammy}, {shammy leather}] 2: hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips [syn: {Rupicapra rupicapra}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Chamois, MO (city, FIPS 13060) Location: 38.67715 N, 91.77001 W Population (1990): 449 (247 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65024 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Chamois only in Deut. 14:5 (Heb. zemer), an animal of the deer or gazelle species. It bears this Hebrew name from its leaping or springing. The animal intended is probably the wild sheep (Ovis tragelephus), which is still found in Sinai and in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX. and Vulgate render the word by camelopardus i.e., the giraffe; but this is an animal of Central Africa, and is not at all known in Syria.
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