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sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

To model; also, to modulate. [Obs.] Sandys. Drayton.

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to. Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.

h fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]

To obliterate. [Obs.] Sandys.

A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys.

- Partridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Chamæcrista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed f…

Without peace; disturbed. Sandys.

r involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton.

A phylactery. Sandys.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

e (Ipomoea pandurata) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant (I. fastigiata) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato.

ick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys.

trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton. The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay.

e sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys.

A sharp-pointed instrument. Prick it on a prong of iron. Sandys.