arenaceous
Webster Dictionary
sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone
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sandy
Webster Dictionary
consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil
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sphex
Webster Dictionary
any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand
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dune
(dun, dyun)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usu. in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
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sandbagger
Webster Dictionary
an assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand
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sandpile
(sandbox, sandpile, sandpit)
Princeton's WordNet
a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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sandpit
(sandbox, sandpile, sandpit)
Princeton's WordNet
a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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sandbox
(sandbox, sandpile, sandpit)
Princeton's WordNet
a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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chilomeniscus cinctus
(banded sand snake, Chilomeniscus cinctus)
Princeton's WordNet
a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes
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banded sand snake
(banded sand snake, Chilomeniscus cinctus)
Princeton's WordNet
a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes
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sandstone
Webster Dictionary
a rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand
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gagger
Webster Dictionary
a piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place
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horner
Webster Dictionary
the British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus)
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rosette
Webster Dictionary
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
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arenation
Webster Dictionary
a sand bath; application of hot sand to the body
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sand
Webster Dictionary
to mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar
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sandnecker
Webster Dictionary
a European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker
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sand
Webster Dictionary
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
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lifter
Webster Dictionary
a tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted
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swash
Webster Dictionary
a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes
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arenulous
Webster Dictionary
full of fine sand; like sand
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quicksand
Webster Dictionary
sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it
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screw
Webster Dictionary
an amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand
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matweed
Webster Dictionary
a name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit
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lant
Webster Dictionary
any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel
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glass
Webster Dictionary
a vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand
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fulgurite
Webster Dictionary
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
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sand
(ænd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to add sand to.
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sand
(ænd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to sprinkle with or as if with sand.
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sandy
(ˈsæn di)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
containing or covered with sand.
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