Sand

sand, 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-gla .— 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, .; 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 ve el of hot sand for heating ve els 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 gla or metal.— adj. Sand′-blind , afflicted with partial blindne , in which particles of sand seem to float before the eyes.— ns. Sand′-blind′ne ; 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 ma of desert sand; Sand′-floun′der , a common North American flounder; Sand′-fly , a small New England biting midge; Sand′-gla , a gla instrument for measuring time by the running out of sand; Sand′-gra , gra 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 Amphipod a , 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′ine , sandy quality, esp. as regards colour; Sand′ing , the proce of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water: the proce 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 gra -ba ; 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 cai ons for sinking the foundations of bridges; Sand′-rat , a geomyoid rodent, esp. the cama rat; Sand′-reed , a shore gra ; Sand′-reel , a windla 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 ma 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 le 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. [A.S. sand ; Dut. zand , Ger. sand , Ice. sand-r .] Sandal to Scaphium fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en.