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- 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.
- English Word Sandre Definition A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.
- English Word Sandstone Definition A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
- English Word Sandwich Definition Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
- English Word Sandwich Definition 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.
- English Word Sandwiched Definition of Sandwich
- English Word Sandwiching Definition of Sandwich
- English Word Sandworm Definition Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.
- English Word Sandworm Definition 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.
- English Word Sandworm Definition The chigoe, a species of flea.
- English Word Sandwort Definition Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.)