Vocabulary : Sandalwood to Sanders

Sandalwood : 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. ;; Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. ;; The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Sandarac : Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. ;; 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.
Sandarach : Alt. of Sandarac
Sandbagger : An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
Sand-blind : Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.

Sanded : of Sand ;; Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. ;; Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. ;; Short-sighted.
Sandemanian : A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.
Sandemanianism : The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
Sanderling : 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.
Sanders : An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

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