Sand"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of
North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
Sand"glass` (?), n. An instrument for measuring time by the running of
sand. See Hourglass.
Sand"hill`er (?), n. A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the
pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
[U.S.]
Sand"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of
a sandy color.
Sand"ish, a. Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact. [Obs.]
Evelyn.
San"di*ver (?), n. [Perh. fr. OF. saïn grease, fat + de of + verre
glass (cf. Saim), or fr. F. sel de verre sandiver.] 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.
[Formerly written also sandever.]
||San"dix (?), n. [L. sandix, sandyx, vermilion, or a color like
||vermilion, Gr. &?;, &?;.] A kind of minium, or red lead, made by
||calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium. [Written
||also sandyx.] [Obs.]
Sand"man` (?), n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that
they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Sand"neck`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides
limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and
sand sucker.
Sand"pa`per (?), n. Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, --
used for smoothing and polishing.
Sand"pa`per, v. t. To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper
a door.
Sand"pi`per (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small
limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and
various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.
The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper
(Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe;
the red-backed, or black- breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (T. alpina);
the purple sandpiper (T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot
(T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the
spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia); the
buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European
species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the
common sandpiper (Actitis, or Tringoides, hypoleucus), called also
fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small
plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.