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A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
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A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
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Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
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A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.
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Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
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Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
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A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
v. i.
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
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Growing in sandy places.
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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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Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
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An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.
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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.
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A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
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Sandy; gritty.
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A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
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The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.
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A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.
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See Sandix.
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A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
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