sand snakes

pl. Zool.: The family Etycide. They frequent sandy or dry places, and burrow beneath the surface. sand-star, 8. Zool.: The genus Ophiura. sand. IMG:content-0934.png:[blocks in formation] sand-worm, 8. Zool.: Nereis versicolor. sănd, v. t. [SAND, 8.] 1. To sprinkle with sand; spec if., to powder with sand, as a freshly painted surface, in order to make it resemble stone. [SANDED.] *2. To force or drive upon a sand. săn'-dal (1), *săn'-dall, *sen-dall, s . [French sandale , from Lat. sandalium , from Gr. sandal i on , dim in. of sandal on =a sandal; Pers. sandal .] 1. A protection for the sole of the foot. It consists merely of a sole, with sometimes a shield at the toe and heel, leaving the upper part of the foot bare, and is secured by straps pa ing over the instep and around the ankle. Sandals were worn by the Jews, and most Oriental nations, as well as by the Greeks and Romans, but appear to have been to a great extent supplanted, even among the Orientals, by shoes. Originally made of leather they became in time articles of great luxury, being made of gold, silver, ., and ornamented. "Neither have they the use of stockings and shoes, but a sort of sandals are worn by the better sort."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1688). 2. The official shoe of an abbot or bishop. They were commonly made of red leather, sometimes of silk or velvet richly embroidered. 3. A tie or strap for fastening a shoe over the foot, or round the ankle. *sandal-shoon, s. pl . Sandals. "He wore his sandal- shoon and scallop-shell." Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 186. săn'-dal (2), s . [Fr., from Pers. chandal , chan dan, from Sansc. chandana.] Sandal-wood. sandal-tree, s. Bot.: The genus Sand or i cum (q. v.). sandal-wood, s. Bot., Comm., .: The wood of Santalum album , a small, greatly-branched, evergreen tree, with leaves opposite and entire, which have been compared to those of the myrtle, as the inflorescence, an axillary and terminal thyrsus, has been to that in 1839 was twelve feet in diameter, and more than sixty feet deep. Mr. Trimmer attributed them to the action of the sea on a beach or shoal; Lyell to the chemical action of water charged with carbonic acid, derived from the vegetable soil and the roots of trees, on the chalk below.