SANDIVER
SAN'DIVER, nounGlass-gall; a whitish salt which is cast up from the materials of glass in fusion, and floating on the top, is skimmed off. A similar substance is thrown out in e...
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SAN'DIVER, nounGlass-gall; a whitish salt which is cast up from the materials of glass in fusion, and floating on the top, is skimmed off. A similar substance is thrown out in e...
SAND'IX, noun A kind of minium or red lead, made of ceruse, but inferior to the true minium.
SAND'PIPER, noun A bird of the genus Tringa.
SAND'STONE, noun [sand and stone.] sandstone is, in most cases, composed chiefly of grains of quartz united by a cement, calcarious, marly, argillaceous, or even silicious. The ...
SAND'Y, adjective1. Abounding with sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as a sandy desert or plain; a sandy road or soil.2. Consisting of sand; not firm or solid;...
SANE, adjective [Latin sanus, Eng. sound. This is the Eng. sound. See sound.]1. Sound; not disordered or shattered; healthy; as a sane body.2. Sound; not disordered; having the ...
SANG, preterit tense of sing.SANG FROID, noun1. Coolness; freedom from agitation or excitement of mind.2. Indifference.
SAN'GIAC, noun A Turkish governor of a province.
SANGUIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sanguifer; sanguis, blood, and fero, to carry.]Conveying blood. The sanguiferous vessels are the arteries and veins.
SANGUIFICA'TION, noun [Latin sanguis, blood, and facio, to make.]In the animal economy, the production of blood; the conversion of chyle into blood.
SAN'GUIFIER, noun A producer of blood.
SANGUIF'LUOUS, adjective [Latin sanguis, blood, and fluo, to flow.] Floating or running with blood.
SAN'GUIFY, verb intransitive To produce blood.
SAN'GUIFYING, participle present tense Producing blood.
SAN'GUIN, adjective [Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, blood.]1. Red; having the color of blood; as a sanguine color or countenance.2. Abounding with blood; plethoric; as a sangui...
SAN'GUINARY, adjective [Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as a sanguinary war, contest or battle.2. Blood thirsty; cru...
SAN'GUINE,SAN'GUINELESS, adjective Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]
SAN'GUINELESS, a. Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]
SAN'GUINELY, adverb Ardently; with confidence of success.
SAN'GUINENESS, noun1. Redness; color of blood in the skin; as sanguineness of countenance.2. Fullness of blood; plethory; as sanguineness of habit.3. Ardor; heat of temper; conf...
SANGUIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin sanguineus.]1. Abounding with blood; plethoric.2. Constituting blood.
SANGUIN'ITY, for sanguineness, is not in use.
SAN'GUISUGE, noun [Latin sanguisuga; sanguis, blood, and sugo, to suck.]The blood-sucker; a leech, or horse leech.
SAN'HEDRIM, noun [Low Latin synedrium; Gr. with, together and seat.]The great council of seventy elders among the Jews, whose jurisdiction extended to all important affairs. The...
SAN'ICLE, noun [from Latin sano, to heal.] Self-heal, a plant or genus of plants, the Sanicula; also, a plant of the genus Saxifraga. The American bastard sanicle is of the genu...
SANID'IUM, noun A genus of fossils of the class of selenites, composed of plain flat plates.
SA'NIES, noun [Latin] A thin acrid discharge from wounds or sores; a serous matter, less thick and white than pus.