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Loam :: Loam (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern..

Micron :: Micron (n.) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.

Dump :: Dump (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc..

Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

Sarsen :: Sarsen (n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone..

Light :: Light (superl.) Loose; sandy; easily pulverized; as, a light soil..

Sandpit :: Sandpit (n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

Draught :: Draught (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold..

Sandbagger :: Sandbagger (n.) An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand..

Tattler :: Tattler (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus..

Sea Sandwort :: Sea sandwort () See Sea chickweed.

Tunny :: Tunny (n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse..

Filefish :: Filefish (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper..

Gyrolepis :: Gyrolepis (n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds..

Egg-glass :: Egg-glass (n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..

Permeate :: Permeate (v. t.) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand..

Mould :: Mould (n.) The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold..

Blind :: Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled..

Pectoral :: Pectoral (a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper..

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