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Sand (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanding.] 1. To sprinkle or cover with sand.
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2. To drive upon the sand. [Obs.] Burton.
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3. To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
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4. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar. [Colloq.]
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Sandal (?), n. Same as .
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Sails of silk and ropes of sandal. Longfellow.
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Sandal, n. Sandalwood. “Fans of sandal.” Tennyson.
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Sandal, n. [F. sandale, L. sandalium, Gr. �, dim. of �, 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.
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Sandaled (?), a. 1. Wearing sandals.
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The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow.
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2. Made like a sandal.
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Sandaliform (?), a. [Sandal + -form.] (Bot.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
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Sandalwood (?), n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. çandal, or Gr. santalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. .] (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 S. pyrularium, the Australian S. 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).
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Coloq. False sandalwood , the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. -- Coloq. 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.
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{ Sandarach, Sandarac, } (�), n. [L. sandaraca, Gr. �.] 1. (Min.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic]
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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.
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sandbag (?), 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.
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sandbag (?), v. To treat harshly or unfairly. [wns=1]
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2. To hit something or somebody with or as if with a sandbag. [wns=2]
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3. To protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; as, the residents sandbagged the beach front. [wns=3]
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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]
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5. To intimidate or coerce, especially by crude methods. [Informal]
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6. To deceive and take advantage of (a person) by misrepresenting one's true intentions. [Informal]
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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.
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Sandbagger (?), n. An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under .
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Sand-blind (?), a. [For sam blind half blind; AS. sām- half (akin to semi-) + blind.] Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.
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Sanded, a. 1. Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson.
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2. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.
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3. Short-sighted. [Prov. Eng.]
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Sandemanian (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See .
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Sandemanianism (?), n. The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller.
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Sanderling (?), n. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Sanders (?), n. [See .] An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under .
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Sanders-blue (?), n. See .
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Sandever (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Sandfish (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
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Sandglass (?), n. An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See .
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Sandhiller (?), 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.]
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Sandiness (?), n. The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.
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Sandish, a. Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact. [Obs.] Evelyn.
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Sandiver (?), n. [Perh. fr. OF. saïn grease, fat + de of + verre glass (cf. ), 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.]
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Sandix (?), n. [L. sandix, sandyx, vermilion, or a color like vermilion, Gr. �, �.] A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium. [Written also sandyx.] [Obs.]
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sandlot, Sand-lot, 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 Coloq. 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.
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sandlot (săndlŏt), n. a vacant lot, especially one where children play games.
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Sandman (?), n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
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Sandnecker (?), n. (Zoöl.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
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Sandpaper (?), n. Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
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Sandpaper, v. t. To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
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Sandpiper (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.
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☞ 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 (T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. 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 . 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.
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2. (Zoöl.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Coloq. Curlew sandpiper . See under . -- Coloq. Stilt sandpiper . See under .
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Sandpit (?), n. A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
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Sandre (?), n. (Zoöl.) A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviar.
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Sandstone (?), n. A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
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☞ Different names are applied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
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Coloq. Flexible sandstone (Min.), the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the lamination is quite flexible. -- Coloq. Red sandstone , a name given to two extensive series of British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were formerly known as the Old and the New Red Sandstone respectively, and the former name is still retained for the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used, some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the remained as Triassic. See the Chart of .
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Sandwich (?; 277), n. [Named from the Earl of Sandwich.] Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
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Sandwich, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sandwiched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sandwiching.] To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
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Sandworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore. (b) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters. (c) The chigoe, a species of flea.
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Sandwort (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceæ.)
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Sandy (?), a. [Compar. Sandier (?); superl. Sandiest.] [AS. sandig.] 1. Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
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2. Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
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Sandyx (?), n. [L.] See .
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Sane (?), a. [L. sanus; cf. Gr. �, �, safe, sound. Cf. , a.] 1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
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2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
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Syn. -- Sound; healthy; underanged; unbroken.
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Saneness, n. The state of being sane; sanity.
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Sang (?), imp. of .
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{ Sanga (?), Sangu (?), } n. (Zoöl.) The Abyssinian ox (Bos Africanus syn. Bibos Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.
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Sangaree (?), n. [Sp. sangria, lit., bleeding, from sangre, blood, L. sanguis.] Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.
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Sang-froid (?), n. [F., cold blood.] Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness. Burke.
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Sangiac (?), n. See .
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{ Sangraal (?), Sangreal (?), } n. [See , and .] See Holy Grail, under .
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Sanguiferous (?), a. [L. sanguis blood + -ferous.] (Physiol.) Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.
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Sanguification (?), n. [Cf. F. sanguification. See .] (Physiol.) The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.
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Sanguifier (?), n. A producer of blood.
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Sanguifluous (?), a. [L. sanguis blood + fluere to flow.] Flowing or running with blood.
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Sanguify (?), v. t. [L. sanguis blood + -fy: cf. F. sanguifier.] To produce blood from.
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Sanguigenous (?), a. [L. sanguis + -genous.] Producing blood; as, sanguigenous food.
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Sanguinaceous (?), n. Of a blood-red color; sanguine.
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Sanguinaria (?), n. [NL. See , a. & n.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
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☞ Sanguinaria Canadensis, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See .
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2. The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
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Sanguinarily (?), adv. In a sanguinary manner.
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Sanguinariness, n. The quality or state of being sanguinary.
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Sanguinary (?), a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.] 1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
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We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. Bacon.
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2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
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Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome.
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Syn. -- Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
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Sanguinary, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See , a.] (Bot.) (a) The yarrow. (b) The Sanguinaria.
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