San*dal"i*form (?), a. [Sandal + -form.] (Bot.) Shaped like a sandal or
slipper.
San"dal*wood (?), n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. çandal, or Gr.
sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.) (a)
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. (b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a
tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn,
used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus
Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. -- Red
sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two
leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera
pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and
rubywood.
{ San"da*rach, San"da*rac }, (&?;), n. [L. sandaraca, Gr. &?;.] 1.
(Min.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic]
2. (Bot. Chem.) 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.
Sand"bag`ger (?), n. An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand
bag, under Sand.
Sand"-blind` (?), a. [For sam blind half blind; AS. sm- half (akin to
semi- ) + blind.] Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.
Sand"ed, a. 1. Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson.
2. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy
color, as a hound. Shak.