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Alisanders :: Alisanders (n.) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely..

Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) The common sand shark. See under Snad.

Thousand :: Thousand (n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Freestone :: Freestone (n.) A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

Cascalho :: Cascalho (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found..

Ant-lion :: Ant-lion (n.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius..

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..

Santalum :: Santalum (n.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood..

Clastic :: Clastic (a.) Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock..

Rub :: Rub (v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament..

Blinding :: Blinding (n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4..

Wenona :: Wenona (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae..

Horner :: Horner (n.) The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus).

Frame :: Frame (n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings..

Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..

Head :: Head (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle..

Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne..

Foralite :: Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata..

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