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

To sculpture; to carve; to engrave. [Obs. or Humorous.] Sandys.

A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.

Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper.

. The first Aletes born in lowly shed. Fairfax. Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel. Sandys.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.

conceals, or protects; a garment. Piers Plowman. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Wide; extensive. Sandys.

n also spurrey.] Sand spurry (Bot.), any low herb of the genus Lepigonum, mostly found in sandy places.

ican shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.

To perish or die with cold. Spenser. Have I seen the naked starve for cold Sandys. Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving.

fer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. All the wine in the city has been staved. Sandys.

To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.

To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.

nt color, or of different colors. A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially suc…