Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood..

Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood..

Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus)..

Sandarac :: Sandarac (n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

Sandarac :: Sandarac (n.) A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral..

Sandarach :: Sandarach (n.) Alt. of Sandara.

Sandbagger :: Sandbagger (n.) An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand..

Sanded :: Sanded (imp. & p. p.) of San.

Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.

Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound..

Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Short-sighted.

Sandemanian :: Sandemanian (n.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite..

Sandemanianism :: Sandemanianism (n.) The faith or system of the Sandemanians.

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) 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..

Sanders :: Sanders (n.) An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood..

Sanders-blue :: Sanders-blue (n.) See Saunders-blue.

Sandever :: Sandever (n.) See Sandiver.

Sandfish :: Sandfish (n.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

Sandglass :: Sandglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.

Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..

Sandiness :: Sandiness (n.) The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color..

Sanding :: Sanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of San.

Sandish :: Sandish (a.) Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.

Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Sandix :: Sandix (n.) A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium..

Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..

Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..

Sandpaper :: Sandpaper (n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing..

Sandpaper :: Sandpaper (v. t.) To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door..

Sandpiper :: Sandpiper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae..

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