Sand

[sænd]

Definition

(noun.) French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876).

(noun.) a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.

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Definition

(n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.

(n.) A single particle of such stone.

(n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.

(n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.

(n.) Courage; pluck; grit.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.

(v. t.) To drive upon the sand.

(v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

(v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Gravel, small pebbles.

v. a. Cover or sprinkle with sand.

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Definition

n. fine particles of crushed or worn rocks used in founding: force of character: (pl.) lands covered with sand: a sandy beach: moments of time from the use of sand in the hour-glass.—v.t. to sprinkle with sand.—ns. Sand′-bag (fort.) a canvas bag filled with sand or earth forming a ready means of giving cover against an enemy's fire or of tamping the charge in a mine: an engraver's leather cushion &c.; Sand′-bag′ger a robber who uses a sand-bag to stun his victims; Sand′-ball a ball of soap mixed with fine sand for the toilet; Sand′-band a guard-ring to keep sand from working into the axle-box; Sand′-bank a bank of sand formed by tides and currents; Sand′-bath a vessel of hot sand for heating vessels without direct exposure to the fire: a bath in which the body is covered with warm sea-sand: saburration; Sand′-bear the Indian badger; Sand′-bed the bed into which the iron from the blast-furnace is run; Sand′-bird a sandpiper: a shore bird; Sand′-blast sand driven by a blast of air or steam for cutting and engraving figures on glass or metal.—adj. Sand′-blind afflicted with partial blindness in which particles of sand seem to float before the eyes.—ns. Sand′-blind′ness; Sand′-blow′er a sand bellows; Sand′-box a box with a perforated top for sprinkling sand on writing a contrivance formerly used by way of blotting-paper: a box with sand to prevent the wheels of a rail from slipping; Sand′-brake a device for stopping trains automatically; Sand′-bug a burrowing crustacean: a digger-wasp; Sand′-bur a weed found in the plains of the western United States; Sand′-canal′ the stone canal of an echinoderm; Sand′-cherr′y the dwarf cherry; Sand′-cock the redshank; Sand′-crab the lady-crab; Sand′-crack a crack in a horse's hoof: a crack in a moulded brick before burning; Sand′-crick′et a name applied to certain large crickets in the western United States; Sand′-dab a kind of plaice; Sand′-dart a British noctuid moth; Sand′-dart′er -div′er a small etheostomine fish of the Ohio valley; Sand′-doll′ar a flat sea-urchin; Sand′-drift a mound of drifted sand; Sand′-dune a ridge of loose sand drifted by the wind.—adj. Sand′ed (Shak.) marked with yellow spots: sprinkled with sand: short-sighted.—ns. Sand′-eel a small eel-like fish which buries itself in the sand when the tide retires; Sand′erling a genus of birds of the snipe family characterised by the absence of a hind-toe common on the coast eating marine worms small crustaceans and bivalve molluscs; Sand′-fence a barrier in a stream of stakes and iron wire; Sand′-fish a fish of the genus Trichodon; Sand′-flag sandstone which splits up into flagstones; Sand′-flea the chigoe or jigger; Sand′-flood a moving mass of desert sand; Sand′-floun′der a common North American flounder; Sand′-fly a small New England biting midge; Sand′-glass a glass instrument for measuring time by the running out of sand; Sand′-grass grass that grows by the sea-shore; Sand′-grouse a small order of birds quite distinct from the true grouse having two genera Pterocles and Syrrhaptes with beautiful plumage heavy body long and pointed wings very short legs and toes; Sand′-heat the heat of warm sand in chemical operations; Sand′-hill a hill of sand; Sand′-hill crane the brown crane of North America; Sand′-hill′er one of the poor whites living in the sandy hills of Georgia; Sand′-hop′per a small crustacean in the order Amphipoda often seen on the sandy sea-shore like swarms of dancing flies leaping up by bending the body together and throwing it out with a sudden jerk: a sand-flea; Sand′-horn′et a sand-wasp; Sand′iness sandy quality esp. as regards colour; Sand′ing the process of testing the surface of gilding after it has been fired with fine sand and water: the process of burying oysters in sand.—adj. Sand′ish (obs.).—ns. Sand′-jet (see Sand′-blast); Sand′-lark a wading-bird that runs along the sand: a sandpiper; Sand′-liz′ard a common lizard; Sand′-lob the common British lug or lob worm; Sand′-mar′tin the smallest of British swallows which builds its nest in sandy river-banks and gravel-pits; Sand′-mā′son a common British tube-worm; Sand′-mole a South African rodent; Sand′-mouse the dunlin: a sandpiper; Sand′-natt′er a sand-snake; Sand′-pā′per paper covered with a kind of sand for smoothing and polishing; Sand′-peep the American stint: the peetweet; Sand′-perch the grass-bass; Sand′piper a wading-bird of the snipe family which frequents sandy river-banks distinguished by its clear piping note.—n.pl. Sand′-pipes perpendicular cylindrical hollows tapering to a point occurring in chalk deposits and so called from being usually filled with sand gravel or clay.—ns. Sand′-pit a place from which sand is extracted; Sand′-plov′er a ring-necked plover; Sand′-pride a very small species of lamprey found in the rivers of Britain; Sand′-pump a long cylinder with valved piston for use in drilling rocks—a Sand′-sludg′er: a sand-ejector modified from the jet-pump used in caissons for sinking the foundations of bridges; Sand′-rat a geomyoid rodent esp. the camass rat; Sand′-reed a shore grass; Sand′-reel a windlass used in working a sand-pump; Sand′-ridge a sand-bank; Sand′-roll a metal roll cast in sand; Sand′-run′ner a sandpiper; Sand′-sau′cer a round mass of agglutinated egg-capsules of a naticoid gasteropod found on beaches; Sand′-scoop a dredge for scooping up sand; Sand′-screen a sand-sifter; Sand′-screw an amphipod which burrows in the sand; Sand′-shark a small voracious shark; Sand′-shot small cast-iron balls cast in sand; Sand′-shrimp a shrimp; Sand′-skink a European skink found in sandy places; Sand′-skip′per a beach flea; Sand′-snake a short-tailed boa-like serpent; Sand′-snipe the sandpiper; Sand′-spout a moving pillar of sand; Sand′star a starfish: a brittle star; Sand′-stone a rock formed of compacted and more or less indurated sand (Old Red Sandstone a name given to a series of strata—along with the parallel but nowhere coexisting Devonian—intermediate in age between the Silurian and Carboniferous systems); Sand′-storm a storm of wind carrying along clouds of sand; Sand′-suck′er the rough dab; Sand′-throw′er a tool for throwing sand on newly sized or painted surfaces; Sand′-trap a device for separating sand from running water; Sand′-vī′per a hog-nosed snake; Sand′-washer an apparatus for separating sand from earthy substances; Sand′-wasp a digger-wasp.—v.t. Sand′-weld to weld iron with sand.—ns. Sand′-worm a worm that lives in the sand; Sand′-wort any plant of the genus Arenaria.—adj. Sand′y consisting of or covered with sand: loose: of the colour of sand.—n. a nick-name for a Scotsman (from Alexander).—ns. Sand′y-car′pet a geometrid moth; Sand′y-lav′erock (Scot.) a sand-lark.

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