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Parting :: Parting (n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Anatron :: Anatron (n.) Glass gall or sandiver.

Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..

Say :: Say (v. t.) To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles..

Gault :: Gault (n.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period..

Dunlin :: Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America..

Kitchen Middens :: Kitchen middens () Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians..

Marram :: Marram (n.) A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach..

Grain :: Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain..

Thousand :: Thousand (n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/..

Laterite :: Laterite (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India..

Pride :: Pride (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper..

Scolithus :: Scolithus (n.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm..

Poecilitic :: Poecilitic (a.) Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors..

Ocypodian :: Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name..

Alexanders :: Alexanders (n.) Alt. of Alisander.

Brontozoum :: Brontozoum (n.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone..

Toph :: Toph (n.) kind of sandstone.

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