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

d, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall. [Formerly written also sandever.]

red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium. [Written also sandyx.] [Obs.]

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

A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. -- Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.

A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

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.

Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllace\'91.)

Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

See Sandix.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

A gliding effect; gliding.

A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

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.