Definition of sand

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Sand (n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life..

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Brick :: Brick (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..
Fulgurite :: Fulgurite (n.) A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge..
Rosette :: Rosette (n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand..
Sandbagger :: Sandbagger (n.) An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand..
Marl :: Marl (n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand..
Myriad :: Myriad (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong..
Mass :: Mass (n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water..
Pan :: Pan (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan..
Stream :: Stream (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand..
Wesand :: Wesand (n.) See Weasand.
Alisanders :: Alisanders (n.) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely..
Flask :: Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc..
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..
Wade :: Wade (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc..
Gritty :: Gritty (a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
Coccobacterium :: Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter..
Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
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