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That which is extorted; exaction. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys. Mangle rack. (Mach.) See under Mangle. n. -- Rack block. (Naut.) See def. 1 (f), above. -- Rack lashing, a lashing or binding where the rope is tightened, and held tight by the use of a small stick of wood twisted around. -- Rack rail (Railroads), a toothed rac…

cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.

rrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys.

An account of time. Sandys.

God, out of all his troubles. Ps. xxv. 22. The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed. Sandys.

the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.

e, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.] It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn.

peace. [Obs.] Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept. Sandys.

restitution of ancient rights unto the crown. Spenser. He restitution to the value makes. Sandys.

ough he his house of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell. Sandys. If we are idle, and disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the faster. Locke.

Growing in sandy places.

Sandy; gritty.

h sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

-- Sand bug (Zoöl.), an American anomuran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura. -- Sand canal (Zoöl.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It app…

Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of Californi…

Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson.

A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [U.S.]

The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.