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Number :: Number (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand..

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) 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..

Ichnite :: Ichnite (n.) A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone..

Lugworm :: Lugworm (n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm..

Sandaled :: Sandaled (a.) Wearing sandals.

Goosander :: Goosander (n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser..

Palladium :: Palladium (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so na

Spit :: Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand..

Discalceate :: Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from.

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Lakh :: Lakh (n.) Same as Lac, one hundred thousand..

Lithotypy :: Lithotypy (n.) The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state..

Hastings Sands :: Hastings sands () The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England..

Chiliad :: Chiliad (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years..

Hydrogen :: Hydrogen (n.) A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very

Flag :: Flag (n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones..

Sauger :: Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel..

Lant :: Lant (n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel..

Chiliarch :: Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.

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

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