Noah Webster
Sample
SAM'PLE, noun [Latin exemplum.]
1. A specimen; a part of any thing presented for inspection or intended to be shown, as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat. Goods are often purchased in market by samples.
I design this as a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.
2. Example; instance.
SAM'PLE, verb transitive To show something similar.