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Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

de by grinding together two pieces, as of metal with emery and oil, or of glass with fine sand and water.

lso, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

Hold; influence. When the devil hath got such a hank over him. Bp. Sanderson.

a refuge; a shelter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.

The science which treats of their construction and progression. Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies. Milton.

Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:(a) To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. (b) To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. (c) To the ear. "Harsh din." Milton.

Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii. -- n.

nt; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison.

A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.

the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Cenchrus tribuloides). -- Hedgehog rat (Zoöl.), one of several West Indian rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to Cap…

eeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.

A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

he genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.

The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [Obs.] Abp. Sandys.

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.

elow). -- Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. Gray. -- Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury…