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noun. Small loose grains of worn or disintegrated rock.

noun. A sedimentary material, finer than a granule and coarser than silt, with grains between 0.06 and 2.0 millimeters in diameter.

noun. A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.

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noun. The loose, granular, gritty particles in an hourglass.

noun. Moments of allotted time or duration.

noun. Courage; stamina; perseverance.

noun. A light grayish brown to yellowish gray.

transitive verb. To sprinkle or cover with or as if with sand.

transitive verb. To polish or scrape with sand or sandpaper.

transitive verb. To mix with sand.

transitive verb. To fill up (a harbor) with sand.

To sprinkle with sand; specifically, to powder with sand, as a freshly painted surface in order to make it resemble stone, or fresh writing to keep it from blotting.

To add sand to: as, to sand sugar.

To drive upon a sand-bank.

noun. A message; a mission; an embassy.

noun. Water-worn detritus, finer than that to which the name gravel would ordinarily be applied: but the line between sand and gravel cannot be distinctly drawn, and they frequently occur intermingled.

noun. A tract or region composed principally of sand, like the deserts of Arabia; or a tract of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide: as, the Libyan Sands; the Solway sands.

noun. Any mass of small hard particles: as, the sand of an hour-glass; sand used in blotting.

noun. In founding, a mixture of sand, clay, and other materials used in making molds for casting metals.

noun. Sandstone: so used in the Pennsylvania petroleum region, where the various beds of petroliferous sandstone are called oil-sands, and designated as first, second, third, etc., in the order in which they are struck in the borings. Similarly, the gas-bearing sandstones are called gas-sands.

noun. plural The moments, minutes, or small portions of time; lifetime; allotted period of life: in allusion to the sand in the hour-glass used for measuring time.

noun. Force of character; stamina; grit; endurance; pluck.

transitive verb. To sprinkle or cover with sand.

transitive verb. To drive upon the sand.

transitive verb. To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

transitive verb. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud.

noun. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.

noun. A single particle of such stone.

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

noun. Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.

noun. Courage; pluck; grit.

noun. the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma).

noun. A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins.

noun. soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use at the toilet.

noun. A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand.

noun. a thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a reducing furnace.

noun. a collective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds.

noun. a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the process.

noun. A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping.

noun. a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of Regma.

noun. an American anomuran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura.

noun. a tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function.

noun. the redshank.

noun. Same as Sand saucer, below.

noun. A land crab, or ocypodian.

noun. a crack extending downward from the coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes lameness.

noun. any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States.

noun. any ophidioid fish. See Illust. under Ophidioid.

"This enables great whites to detect a heart beat of prey buried in sand from a faint electrical field or the action of a gill or a swimming muscle of another animal."

Colours  ash  ashdown sand  bagshot sand  barking sands  

sanded  sanding  

author  dirt  fortitude  soil  writer  

Grande  Hand  Land  Marchand  Rand  

ash  beach  beads  bear  blood  

backbone  breccia  buff  burnish  courage  

sanded  sanding  sands