<B>sand reef,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strip of low, sandy land, or barrier beach, built by the action of waves on a shallow sea floor not far from the coast and often enclosing a narrow lagoon. </DL>
<A NAME="sandripple">
<B>sand ripple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> alternate ridge and hollow formed in sand through the influence of waves, wind, or currents. </DL>
<A NAME="sands">
<B>sands, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>sand.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sandsc">
<B>S. and s.c.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> sized and supercalendered. </DL>
<A NAME="sandsea">
<B>sand sea,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large stretch of desert consisting of barchans. <BR> <I>Ex. A sand sea, with small crescentic dunes [that] migrate as entities across the desert floor (Robert M. Garrels).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandshark">
<B>sand shark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of shark common along the Atlantic coast, which attains a length of almost eleven feet but is not known to attack humans. </DL>
<A NAME="sandsink">
<B>sand sink,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of removing oil spilled at sea by spraying the oil with a mixture of chemically treated sand and water which sticks to the oil causing it to sink. </DL>
<A NAME="sandsmelt">
<B>sand smelt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a silversides, especially a common British species. </DL>
<A NAME="sandsoap">
<B>sandsoap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soap mixed with fine sand, used to remove roughness and stains in washing. </DL>
<A NAME="sandspit">
<B>sand-spit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a low, sandy area jutting out into a lake or sea. <BR> <I>Ex. Many Northerners maintain palatial winter homes on this sand-spit 70 miles north of Miami Beach (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandspout">
<B>sandspout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pillar of sand similar to a waterspout, produced by a whirlwind, as on a desert. </DL>
<B>sandstone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of sedimentary rock formed mostly of sand, the grains being held together by a natural cement of silica, calcite, iron oxide, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Before the use of Portland cement and reinforced concrete, sandstone was widely used to build large buildings (Richard M. Pearl).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandstorm">
<B>sandstorm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a storm of wind that carries along clouds of sand. <BR> <I>Ex. The latest explosion had come in Jordan with the suddenness of a desert sandstorm (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandsucker">
<B>sand sucker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pump that removes wet sand, silt, or mud from an area. <BR> <I>Ex. Both expeditions made feverish plans to go after the copper Iode with sand suckers and ... power shovels (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=flatfish.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sandtable">
<B>sand table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a table with a rim, on which sand is spread for children's play or for modeling terrain for military study, projected land use, or engineering problems. <BR> <I>Ex. At three or four, the children go to a preprimary school, where they learn to run, hop, skip, play at sand tables, and even fingerpaint (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandtrap">
<B>sand trap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shallow pit filled with sand on a golf course, usually near a green and serving as a hazard. <BR> <I>Ex. Great Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (in the low 80s) ... can be reduced to hopeless and despairing silence when three tries fail to get him out of a sand trap (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandtube">
<B>sand tube,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tube of fused or sintered sand which has been melted together along the path of a stroke of lightning. </DL>
<A NAME="sandunga">
<B>sandunga, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Mexican folk dance in which couples face each other in two lines and each woman dances before her partner, who follows her around. </DL>
<A NAME="sandverbena">
<B>sand verbena,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of low herbs of the four-o'clock family with verbenalike flowers, found in western North America. </DL>
<A NAME="sandvine">
<B>sand-vine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a vine of the milkweed family growing in the southeastern United States, having deeply cordate, ovate leaves, small whitish flowers in axillary cymes, and large follicles. </DL>
<B>sand wasp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a solitary wasp that nests in the sand. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwedge">
<B>sand wedge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a special golf club used for hitting out of sand traps. <BR> <I>Ex. He pulled out his sand wedge, swung--and blasted the ball straight into the cup (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandwich">
<B>sandwich, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>two or more slices of bread with meat, jelly, cheese, or some other filling between them. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. When used as the outer leaf of an insulating sandwich, it provides a membrane which gives fairly good control of light and heat (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put or squeeze in (between). <BR> <I>Ex. He was sandwiched between two fat women. [He] also lived in Paris from around 1924 to 1927, but ... this visit was sandwiched between visits to his native Japan (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put in a sandwich. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichbar">
<B>sandwich bar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a restaurant specializing in sandwiches, usually served at a counter. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichboard">
<B>sandwich board,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a board carried by a sandwich man. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichcoin">
<B>sandwich coin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a coin made of layers of metal bonded together; clad coin. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichcourse">
<B>sandwich course,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a course in an industrial school that combines classroom study with practical experience in factories. <BR> <I>Ex. "Sandwich" courses--alternate periods of industrial and academic study--are being run in co-operation with technical colleges (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichglass">
<B>Sandwich glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> glassware manufactured by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company at Sandwich, Massachusetts, from 1825 to 1888. Sandwich glass often has elaborate designs to give a complex, lacelike effect. </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichman">
<B>sandwich man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man carrying two advertising boards hung from his shoulders, one before him and one behind. <BR> <I>Ex. Walking on rosy clouds, he passed a sandwich man who handed him an advertising circular (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandwichpanel">
<B>sandwich panel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a panel used in construction, made by bonding together several layers of material, as aluminum, steel, or plastic, so that one layer is sandwiched between two other layers. <BR> <I>Ex. Built of aluminum sandwich panels, it would weigh about half as much as a comparable conventional car (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandworm">
<B>sandworm, </B>noun. <B>=lugworm.</B></DL>
<A NAME="sandwort">
<B>sandwort, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of low, scrubby herbs of the pink family that grow in sandy soil and bear very small, white flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="sandy">
<B>sandy, </B>adjective, <B>sandier,</B> <B>sandiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>containing sand; consisting of sand. <BR> <I>Ex. sandy soil.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>covered with sand. <BR> <I>Ex. Most of the shore is rocky, but there is a sandy beach.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>yellowish-red. <BR> <I>Ex. She has sandy hair.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>having such hair. <BR> <I>Ex. The ladies Fitz-Warene were sandy girls (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) shifting like sand; not stable. <BR> <I>Ex. But mark how sandy is your own pretence (John Dryden).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandyacht">
<B>sand yacht,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a vehicle on three wheels with a mast and small sails, for racing before the wind on a beach or other sandy area; land yacht. <BR> <I>Ex. The first attempt to cross the Sahara by sandyacht ended in success ... when eight of the fragile craft arrived at the finish line (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sandyachting">
<B>sand yachting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the sport of racing with a sand yacht. </DL>
<A NAME="sandyachtsman">
<B>sand yachtsman,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in sand yachting. </DL>
<A NAME="sane">
<B>sane, </B>adjective, <B>saner,</B> <B>sanest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>having a healthy mind; not crazy; sound. <BR> <I>Ex. Their doctrine could be held by no sane man (Robert Browning).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>not diseased or disordered. <BR> <I>Ex. a sane mind.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>having or showing good sense or sound judgment; sensible. <BR> <I>Ex. She has a sane attitude toward driving and never goes too fast.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>regulated by reason; rational. <BR> <I>Ex. It is the American woman who is primarily responsible for the safe and sane Fourth [of July] (Edward Bok).</I> adv. <B>sanely.</B> noun <B>saneness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sane">
<B>SANE, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. </DL>
<A NAME="sanforize">
<B>Sanforize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) to shrink (cotton, linen, or rayon fabric) by a patented process before it is made into a garment, that is then guaranteed a maximum shrinkage of one per cent. </DL>
<A NAME="sanfranciscan">
<B>San Franciscan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of San Francisco, California. </DL>
<A NAME="sang">
<B>sang, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense of <B>sing.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The bird sang for us yesterday.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sangamon">
<B>Sangamon, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) of or having to do with the third interglacial stage in the topographical development of North America, beginning about 175,000 years ago. </DL>
<A NAME="sangar">
<B>sangar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a breastwork of stone. Also, <B>sungar.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sangaree">
<B>sangaree, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tropical drink consisting of wine (usually red), water, sugar, spice, and sometimes brandy. </DL>
<A NAME="sangerbund">
<B>sangerbund, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a German male singing society. </DL>
<A NAME="sangerfest">
<B>sangerfest, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a German song festival, especially a gathering of German singing societies for competition. <BR> <I>Ex. The town's newest, and just about its best, triad, are half in earnest, half in fun during their up-tempo sangerfest (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
