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abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

See Sandix.

To cause alienation of (mind). Sandys.

To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.

To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

See Anemone. Sandys.

before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

Sandy; as, arenarious soil.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

ht or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila aru…

they [the Neboites] would have converted. Latimer. A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. The public hope And eye to thee converting. Thomson.

The cord worn by a Franciscan friar. Sir E. Sandys.

To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.

front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

An opposite point [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as…

To deprive of virginity; to deflour. [R.] Sandys.