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Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit..

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

Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..

Job :: "Job (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars..

Sanders-blue :: Sanders-blue (n.) See Saunders-blue.

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Longirostres :: Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division..

Myriarch :: Myriarch (n.) A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

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

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

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

Sandy :: Sandy (superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair..

Chiliast :: Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Sanders :: Sanders (n.) An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood..

Arenulous :: Arenulous (a.) Full of fine sand; like sand.

Glauconite :: Glauconite (n.) The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

Otozoum :: Otozoum (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones..

Pactolian :: Pactolian (a.) Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands..

Penny :: Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..

Sanding :: Sanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of San.

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