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which the body is immersed in hot sand. -- Sand bed, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a reducing furnace. -- Sand birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such a…

ffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.

saving to honesty. L'Estrange. Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine. [Obs.] But laid them up in immortial scrine. Spenser.

Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal tender, but is receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues.…

ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

pening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.

The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

hurches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter. -- Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters of…

er, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

That which is deposited beneath something else.

Silt; mud deposited by water. Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b).

Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. Specifically: --

Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

rval insect which burrows in timber. -- Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.