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- English Word Sandalwood Definition The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
- English Word Sandarac Definition Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
- English Word Sandarac Definition A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.
- English Word Sandarach Definition Alt. of Sandarac
- English Word Sandbagger Definition An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
- English Word Sanded Definition of Sand
- English Word Sanded Definition Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
- English Word Sanded Definition Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
- English Word Sanded Definition Short-sighted.
- English Word Sandemanian Definition A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.
- English Word Sandemanianism Definition The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
- English Word Sanderling Definition A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
- English Word Sanders Definition An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
- English Word Sanders-blue Definition See Saunders-blue.
- English Word Sandever Definition See Sandiver.
- English Word Sandfish Definition A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
- English Word Sandglass Definition An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
- English Word Sandhiller Definition A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
- English Word Sandiness Definition The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.
- English Word Sanding Definition of Sand
- English Word Sandish Definition Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.
- English Word Sandiver Definition A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
- English Word Sandix Definition A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.
- English Word Sandman Definition A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
- English Word Sandnecker Definition A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
- English Word Sandpaper Definition Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
- English Word Sandpaper Definition To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
- English Word Sandpiper Definition Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
- English Word Sandpiper Definition A small lamprey eel; the pride.
- English Word Sandpit Definition A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.