sandwort (sandwert)

[ Europe and North America. Also sandweed . sandyl (san'di), a. [ AS. sandig (= D. zandig = MHG. sandic = G. Dan. Sw. sandig = Icel. söndugr ), sandy, I should not see the sandy hour-gla run But I should think of shallows and of flats. Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 25. 2. Resembling sand; hence, unstable; shifting; not firm or solid. IMG:content-0092.jpg:[blocks in formation] built but upon the sandy foundation of personal respects only cannot be long lived. Bacon, Advice to Villiers. 3. Dry; arid; uninteresting. [Rare.] It were no service to you to send you my notes upon the book, because they are sandy , incoherent rags, for my memory, not for your judgment. Donne , Letters, xxi. 4. Of the color of sand; of a yellowish-red color: as, sandy hair. A huge Briton, with sandy whiskers and a double chin, was swallowing patties and cherry-brandy. Thackeray, Men and Pictures. Sandy laverock. See laverock . Bare naething but windle-straes and sandy - lavrocks. Scott, Old Mortality, vii. Sandy mocking-bird, the brown thrush, or thrasher, Harporhynchus rufus. See cut under thrasher. [Local, U. S.]-Sandy ray. See ray2. sandyl (san'di), n.; pl. sandies (-diz). [Also sandie, sanny; abbr. of sandy laverock.] Same as sandy laverock (which see, under laverock ). - Cuckoo's sandy, the meadow-pipit, Anthus pratensis, also called cuckoo's titling. [Prov. Eng.]