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e in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet. That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles. Woodsward.

Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.

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…

Same as Sendal. Sails of silk and ropes of sandal. Longfellow.

Wearing sandals. The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow.

Shaped like a sandal or slipper.

Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.

Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic]

An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.

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

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller.

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.

An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

See Saundersblue.

See Sandiver. [Obs.]

sh of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.

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.