n. [ OE. alisaundre, OF. alissandere, fr. Alexander or Alexandria. ] (Bot) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of and, per se and, i. e., & by itself makes and. ] A word used to describe the character &unr_;, &unr_;, or &. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person undergoing psychoanalysis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. & a. [ As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding. ] (Mus.) A gliding effect; gliding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gossander, a tautological word formed fr. goose + gander. Cf. Merganser. ] (Zool.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞Greensand is often called marl, because it is a useful fertilizer. The greensand beds of the American Cretaceous belong mostly to the Upper Cretaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; twenty +&unr_;, &unr_;, man, male: cf. F. icosandrie. ] (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

{ } a. (Bot.) Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who hates men. Contrast misogynist and cf. misandry.
Syn. -- man-hater. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. misei^n to hate + 'andh`r a man. ] Hatred of men. Contrast misogyny and cf. misandrist.
Syn. -- man-hating. [ PJC ]

n. An East Asiatic saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera) with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons; called also strawberry geranium and strawberry saxifrage.
Syn. -- strawberry geranium, strawberry saxifrage, Saxifraga stolonifera, Saxifraga sarmentosam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Pachysandra; they are low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. palissandre. ] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet. [ 1913 Webster ]

That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A single particle of such stone. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sands are numbered that make up my life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide. “The Libyan sands.” Milton. “The sands o' Dee.” C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Courage; pluck; grit. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sand badger (Zool.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma). --
Sand bag. (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. --
Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use at the toilet. --
Sand bath. (a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed. (b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand. --
Sand bed, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a reducing furnace. --
Sand birds (Zool.), a collective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds. --
Sand blast, a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the process. --
Sand box. (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand. (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping. --
Sand-box tree (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of Regma. --
Sand bug (Zool.), an American anomuran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura. --
Sand canal (Zool.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function. --
Sand cock (Zool.), the redshank. [ Prov. Eng. ] --
Sand collar. (Zool.) Same as Sand saucer, below. --
Sand crab. (Zool.) (a) The lady crab. (b) A land crab, or ocypodian. --
Sand crack (Far.), a crack extending downward from the coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes lameness. --
Sand cricket (Zool.), any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States. --
Sand cusk (Zool.), any ophidioid fish. See Illust. under Ophidioid. --
Sand dab (Zool.), a small American flounder (Limanda ferruginea); -- called also rusty dab. The name is also applied locally to other allied species. --
Sand darter (Zool.), a small etheostomoid fish of the Ohio valley (Ammocrypta pellucida). --
Sand dollar (Zool.), any one of several species of small flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms, especially Echinarachnius parma of the American coast. --
Sand drift, drifting sand; also, a mound or bank of drifted sand. --
Sand eel. (Zool.) (a) A lant, or launce. (b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus Gonorhynchus, having barbels about the mouth. --
Sand flag, sandstone which splits up into flagstones. --
Sand flea. (Zool.) (a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in, sandy places, especially the common dog flea. (b) The chigoe. (c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach. --
Sand flood, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce. --
Sand fluke. (Zool.) (a) The sandnecker. (b) The European smooth dab (Pleuronectes microcephalus); -- called also kitt, marysole, smear dab, town dab. --
Sand fly (Zool.), any one of several species of small dipterous flies of the genus Simulium, abounding on sandy shores, especially Simulium nocivum of the United States. They are very troublesome on account of their biting habits. Called also no-see-um, punky, and midge. --
Sand gall. (Geol.) See Sand pipe, below. --
Sand grass (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in sand; especially, a tufted grass (Triplasis purpurea) with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leaves, growing on the Atlantic coast. --
Sand grouse (Zool.), any one of many species of Old World birds belonging to the suborder Pterocletes, and resembling both grouse and pigeons. Called also rock grouse, rock pigeon, and ganga. They mostly belong to the genus Pterocles, as the common Indian species (Pterocles exustus). The large sand grouse (Pterocles arenarius), the painted sand grouse (Pterocles fasciatus), and the pintail sand grouse (Pterocles alchata) are also found in India. See Illust. under Pterocletes. --
Sand hill, a hill of sand; a dune. --
Sand-hill crane (Zool.), the American brown crane (Grus Mexicana). --
Sand hopper (Zool.), a beach flea; an orchestian. --
Sand hornet (Zool.), a sand wasp. --
Sand lark. (Zool.) (a) A small lark (Alaudala raytal), native of India. (b) A small sandpiper, or plover, as the ringneck, the sanderling, and the common European sandpiper. (c) The Australian red-capped dotterel (Aegialophilus ruficapillus); -- called also red-necked plover. --
Sand launce (Zool.), a lant, or launce. --
Sand lizard (Zool.), a common European lizard (Lacerta agilis). --
Sand martin (Zool.), the bank swallow. --
Sand mole (Zool.), the coast rat. --
Sand monitor (Zool.), a large Egyptian lizard (Monitor arenarius) which inhabits dry localities. --
Sand mouse (Zool.), the dunlin. [ Prov. Eng. ] --
Sand myrtle. (Bot.) See under Myrtle. --
Sand partridge (Zool.), either of two small Asiatic partridges of the genus Ammoperdix. The wings are long and the tarsus is spurless. One species (Ammoperdix Heeji) inhabits Palestine and Arabia. The other species (Ammoperdix Bonhami), inhabiting Central Asia, is called also seesee partridge, and teehoo. --
Sand picture, a picture made by putting sand of different colors on an adhesive surface. --
Sand pike. (Zool.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish. --
Sand pillar, a sand storm which takes the form of a whirling pillar in its progress in desert tracts like those of the Sahara and Mongolia. --
Sand pipe (Geol.), a tubular cavity, from a few inches to several feet in depth, occurring especially in calcareous rocks, and often filled with gravel, sand, etc.; -- called also sand gall. --
Sand pride (Zool.), a small British lamprey now considered to be the young of larger species; -- called also sand prey. --
Sand pump, in artesian well boring, a long, slender bucket with a valve at the bottom for raising sand from the well. --
Sand rat (Zool.), the pocket gopher. --
Sand rock, a rock made of cemented sand. --
Sand runner (Zool.), the turnstone. --
Sand saucer (Zool.), the mass of egg capsules, or oothecae, of any mollusk of the genus Natica and allied genera. It has the shape of a bottomless saucer, and is coated with fine sand; -- called also sand collar. --
Sand screw (Zool.), an amphipod crustacean (Lepidactylis arenarius), which burrows in the sandy seabeaches of Europe and America. --
Sand shark (Zool.), an American shark (Odontaspis littoralis) found on the sandy coasts of the Eastern United States; -- called also gray shark, and dogfish shark. See Illust. under Remora. --
Sand skink (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World lizards belonging to the genus Seps; as, the ocellated sand skink (Seps ocellatus) of Southern Europe. --
Sand skipper (Zool.), a beach flea, or orchestian. --
Sand smelt (Zool.), a silverside. --
Sand snake. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of harmless burrowing snakes of the genus Eryx, native of Southern Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially Eryx jaculus of India and Eryx Johnii, used by snake charmers. (b) Any innocuous South African snake of the genus Psammophis, especially Psammophis sibilans. --
Sand snipe (Zool.), the sandpiper. --
Sand star (Zool.), an ophiurioid starfish living on sandy sea bottoms; a brittle star. --
Sand storm, a cloud of sand driven violently by the wind. --
Sand sucker, the sandnecker. --
Sand swallow (Zool.), the bank swallow. See under Bank. --
Sand trap, (Golf) a shallow pit on a golf course having a layer of sand in it, usually located near a green, and designed to function as a hazard, due to the difficulty of hitting balls effectively from such a position. --
Sand tube, a tube made of sand. Especially: (a) A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite. (b) (Zool.) Any tube made of cemented sand. (c) (Zool.) In starfishes, a tube having calcareous particles in its wall, which connects the oral water tube with the madreporic plate. --
Sand viper. (Zool.) See Hognose snake. --
Sand wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the families Pompilidae and Spheridae, which dig burrows in sand. The female provisions the nest with insects or spiders which she paralyzes by stinging, and which serve as food for her young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanding. ] 1. To sprinkle or cover with sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drive upon the sand. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. Same as Sendal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sails of silk and ropes of sandal. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sandalwood. “Fans of sandal.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sandale, L. sandalium, Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_;, probably from Per. sandal. ] (a) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper. (b) A kind of slipper. (c) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wearing sandals. [ 1913 Webster ]

The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made like a sandal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sandal + -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. çandal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders. ] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and Santalum pyrularium, the Australian Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). [ 1913 Webster ]

False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. --
Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. sandaraca, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Min.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot. Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bag filled with sand; small sandbags may be used as a weapon, or larger ones to build walls or as ballast; as, they kept the flooding river from the area by buiding a temmporary dike out of sandbags. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

v. To treat harshly or unfairly. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.6 ]

2. To hit something or somebody with or as if with a sandbag. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.6 ]

3. To protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; as, the residents sandbagged the beach front. [ wns=3 ] [ WordNet 1.6 ]

4. To thwart (another person's plans) by surreptitious maneuvers; as, he sandbagged my proposal by talking in private with other members of the committee. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

5. To intimidate or coerce, especially by crude methods. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

6. To deceive and take advantage of (a person) by misrepresenting one's true intentions. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

7. Hence: (Poker) To encourage opponents into betting more by first refraining from betting while having a strong hand, and only later raising the stakes. In informal games, certain types of sandbagging are forbidden. [ PJC ]

n. An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For sam blind half blind; AS. sām- half (akin to semi-) + blind. ] Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Short-sighted. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sandal. ] An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saunders-blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sandiver. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nickname given to any “poor white” living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. OF. saïn grease, fat + de of + verre glass (cf. Saim), or fr. F. sel de verre sandiver. ] 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. [ Formerly written also sandever. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. sandix, sandyx, vermilion, or a color like vermilion, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium. [ Written also sandyx. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a vacant lot, especially one where children play games. [ PJC ]

, a. 1. Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the
sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.

2. of or pertaining to a sandlot; -- used especially in reference to informal games played by children; as, sandlot baseball. [ PJC ]

n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (Tringa canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. --
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken. [ 1913 Webster ]