sandpaper (sandpa"per)

t. [ After the priming has been four days drying, and has then been sand - papered off, give another coat of the same paint. Workshop Receipts , 1st ser., p. 80. sandpiper tensive migrations, and in winter are generally dispersed over the world. The sexes are alike in plumage, but the seasonal changes of plumage are very great. The sandpipers are probably without exception gregarious, and often fleck the beaches in flocks of hundreds or you sands. They live preferably in open wet sandy places, not in swamps and fens, and feed by probing with their sensitive bills, like snipes. Among them are the most diminutive of waders, as the tiny sandpipers of the genus Acto dromas called stints. The semipalmated sandpiper is no larger, but has basal webs; it is Ereunetes pusillus of America. The spoon-billed sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmæus, is another diminutive bird, of Asia and arctic America. The stilt-sandpiper has long legs and semipalmated feet; it is Micro palama him an top us. The broad billed sandpiper is Limicola pygmæa or platyrhyncha, not found in America. The pectoral sandpiper, or gra -snipe, is Actodromas maculata, a characteristic American species IMG:content-0085.png:[graphic][merged small] of comparatively large size. Dunlins or purres are sandpipers of the genus Pelidna. The curlew-sandpiper is Ancylochilus subarquatus. The purple sandpipers are several species of Arquatella, as A. maritima. The knot, canute, red or red-breasted, or ash-colored sandpiper, or Hence, figuratively-2. To make smooth or even; polish, as a literary composition.-Sand robin-snipe, is Tringa canutus . (b) A bird of the same fam- papering-machine, a machine in which sandpaper is em- ployed as an abradant in finishing wooden spokes, handles, etc., and in buffing shoe-soles. It is made in several forms according to the character of the work, with a rotating drum or disk covered with sandpaper. n. One of sandpaper-tree (sand pa-per-trē), several trees of the order Dilleniaceæ, having leaves so rough that they can be used like sandpaper. Such trees are Cur a tell a American a of Guiana, and Dillenia scabrella of the East Indies. sand-partridge (sand' pär"trij), n. A partridge of the genus Ammoperdix: translating the generic name. There are two kinds: A. bonham i is widely distributed in India, Persia, and some other portions of Asia; A. hey i occupies Arabia and Palestine, and thence extends into Egypt and Nubia. They differ little from the members of the genus Perdix proper. See partridge, 1. sandpeep (sand'pēp), n. A familiar name in the United States of various small sandpipers; a peep; a peetweet: so called from their notes. The birds chiefly called by this name are the American stint or least sandpiper, Actodromas minutilla; the semi palmated sandpiper, Ereunetes pusillus; and the peetweet, or spotted sandpiper, Tringoides macular i us. See cuts under Ereunetes, Tringoides, and stint. sand-perch (sand'pèrch), n. The gra -ba , Pomoxys sparoides. [Southern U. S.] sand-picture (sand'piktūr), n. A sheet of sandpaper upon which the sand is arranged in different colors to produce a sort of picture. sand-pigeon (sand'pijon), n. Same as sand grouse. The sand-grouse, better sand - pigeons, Pterocletes. Coues.