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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.

A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used i…

To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of sandal worn by Indians and the lower classes generally; --usually used in pl. [Southern U. S. & Mex.]

Sandalwood (Santalum album).

A sandal. [Obs.] Latimer.

The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

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

substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

less than a dozen species, occuring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.