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A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. Dana.

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

A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

A salt of santonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

A salt of santoninic acid.

Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

A species of calciferous sandstone. [Prov. Eng.]

A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone. [R.]

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.

Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance. --Sem`i*ton*tine", n.

Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

A minor third, or interval of three semitones.

A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.

form other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc. Sexton beetle (Zoöl.), a burying beetle.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.