sandyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsandi/, U.S.

/ˈsændi/

Forms: Old English sandig, Middle English sondi, Middle English sondy(e, Middle English– sandy.

Etymology: Old English sandig : see sand n.² and -y suffix¹. Compare Dutch zandig, Middle High German sandic (German sandig), Old Norse sǫndug-r (Swedish, Danish sandig).

a. Of the nature of sand; composed of or containing a large proportion of sand.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [adjective] > sand

sandyc1000

gravellya1382

sandiferousa1586

sabulous1632

arenous1664

sandish1664

arenose1731

arenaceous1752

arenarious1759

sandyish1793

sabuline1909

sabulose1909

c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 94 Ðeos wyrt..wihst..on sandigum landum.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvii. 17 Thei vseden girdyng to gidere of schipp, dredynge lest thei schulden falle into sandy placis.

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 447 Lond myxt with cley, or sondy cley, faat sonde.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 41 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 107 Where the deepe did show his sandy flore.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 28 The Mason must work no Stone with Sandy veines.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 With sandy Ballast Sailors trim the Boat.

1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 6 In other Parts it [the ocean] leaves wide sandy Plains.

1787 Trans. Soc. Arts 5 216 Rubbed in with a brickbat or sandy stone.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 175 The term sandy..should never be applied to any soil that does not contain at least ⁷/ ₈ of sand.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 169 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A subsoil, the deeper the sandier.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xi The spit of sandy rock which juts Spitefully northward.

b. Of or containing sand as used for measuring time. (Cf. sand-glass n.) poetic.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adjective] > of or relating to sundials

gnomonical1570

gnomonic1601

sandy1607

gnomical1611

stylar1614

sciatherical1615

direct1659

skiagraphical1690

sciatheric1700

solar1728

1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. F3^v O God, that it were possible..That time could turne vp his swift sandy glasse,..to redeeme these howres!

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. ii. 36 Ere the Glasse that now begins to runne, Finish the processe of his sandy houre.

1893 F. Thompson Poems 31 The sandy glass hence bear—Antique remembrancer.

2. figurative. Resembling sand as lacking the quality of cohesion or stability.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive

sandy1590

incohering1659

incohesive1846

1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. A 3^v You may easily perceiue what successe they are like to haue, that deale with so leaden and sandie braines.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes 265 The short shredder out of sandy sentences without lime.

1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 162 It were no service to you, to send you my notes upon the Book, because they are sandy, and incoherent ragges.

1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 29 Who build the Antiquitie of their Canonicall Howers vpon such a sandy foundation.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 39 But mark how sandy is your own pretence.

1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers iii. 107 He said they [sc. the Quakers] were built upon a sandy Foundation, and so call'd them Shakers.

1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Amelia Wentworth in Dram. Scenes i Oh, what a picture have I raised upon My sandy wishes.

1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. i. 41 Now it was that men might clearly see on how sandy a foundation the grandeur of Spain was built.

3. Having hair of a yellowish-red colour; of hair, yellowish-red.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having

redeOE

rousec1400

red-haired?a1513

sandy?1530

red-headed1548

amber-crowneda1586

redhead1664

sandy-pated1687

red-polled1787

sandy-haireda1817

brick-topped1858

Titian-haired1880

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red

redc1275

auburn1591

Abraham?1592

sorrel1600

Abram1602

sandy-coloured1661

carrot1671

carrot-coloured1684

Judas colour1695

carroty1696

sandy1734

gingery1844

Titian1863

gingerous1864

?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxx^v A sandy colte lyke an yren grey.

1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iv. i. sig. Di Hach your browne cow cast hir calfe, or your sandy sowe her pigs.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 841 The Tocomans..are sandie, small, but not so little as they say of the Pigmees.

1734 J. Swift Cassinus & Peter in Beautiful Nymph 27 Why, Plague confound her sandy Locks.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 98 He was a florid young man..with sandy hair.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. xi. 230 The ladies Fitz-Warene were sandy girls.

4. Qualifying the names of colours.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > yellowish

yellowisha1398

saffronish1530

jaunish1597

sanded1600

saffrony1630

yellowy1667

sallow1747

sallowish1753

sandy1819

flavescent1853

sandyish1863

flavicant1871

chromy1883

1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 409 Oak, sandy red.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro xcix My mother's sandy-red cat.

1885 J. Beddoe Races of Brit. 266 Red [hair], and a sort of sandy-flaxen hue.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 67 Wing-coverts edged with sandy-buff.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 78 The..plumage is obscured by sandy-rufous edges to the feathers.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, parasynthetic.

sandy-bottomed adj.

ΚΠ

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 64 From the bankes of Wye, And sandy bottomd Seuerne.

sandy-coloured adj.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red

redc1275

auburn1591

Abraham?1592

sorrel1600

Abram1602

sandy-coloured1661

carrot1671

carrot-coloured1684

Judas colour1695

carroty1696

sandy1734

gingery1844

Titian1863

gingerous1864

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 86 The red or sandy coloured are the best.

1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey ix. 245 Her hair was cut..so as to cover her forehead with a straggling sandy-coloured fringe.

sandy-haired adj.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having

redeOE

rousec1400

red-haired?a1513

sandy?1530

red-headed1548

amber-crowneda1586

redhead1664

sandy-pated1687

red-polled1787

sandy-haireda1817

brick-topped1858

Titian-haired1880

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. iii. 49 Colonel Wallis's companion..certainly was not sandy-haired .

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ii. 10 She was..pale, sandy-haired.

sandy-pated adj.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having

redeOE

rousec1400

red-haired?a1513

sandy?1530

red-headed1548

amber-crowneda1586

redhead1664

sandy-pated1687

red-polled1787

sandy-haireda1817

brick-topped1858

Titian-haired1880

1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 77 Your sandy-pated companions.

C2. Special combinations.

sandy blight n. Australian a kind of ophthalmia in which the eye feels as if full of sand (Morris).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of

psorophthalmia1585

psorophthalmy1656

xerophthalmia1656

ophthalmia neonatorum1835

photophobophthalmia1842

sun blight1848

sand-blight1852

sandy blight1869

blepharoconjunctivitis1890

pink-eye1897

klieg eyes1923

bung eye1933

shipyard eye1943

red-eye1952

1869 J. F. Blanche Prince's Visit 20 The Prince was suffering from the sandy blight.

sandy carpet n. a moth (see quot. 1829).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > member of genus Emmelesia > emmelesia decolorata

sandy carpet1829

1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 148 [Emmelesia decolorata] Sandy Carpet.

sandy hill crane n. = sand-hill crane n. at sand-hill n. b.

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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus canadensis (sand-hill crane)

sand-hill crane1805

sandy hill crane1819

1819 D. Thomas Trav. Western Country 210 A bird inhabits this country called the sandy hill Crane.

1825 W. Biggs Narr. Captivity among Kickapoo Indians (1922) 35 Sandy hill cranes boiled in leyed corn.

sandy laverock n. = sand lark n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover)

sea-lark1602

ringlestonesa1682

stone-runner1681

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

ring-necked plover1750

towillee1758

sand lark1771

ringed plover1776

ring dotterel1797

ring plover1797

dulwilly1802

ring-neck1837

ringed sand plover1842

stonehatch1852

miller1885

sand-runner1894

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper)

sea-lark1602

sandpiper1674

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

sand lark1771

summer snipe1794

shad-bird1879

fiddler1885

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin)

stint1519

dunlin1531

oxbirda1547

sea-lark1602

purre1611

ox-eye1612

jack snipe1664

spar1668

pickerel1684

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

sea-snipe1767

plover's page1771

sand lark1771

red-back1813

red-backed sandpiper1813

ebb-sleeper1837

oxybird1887

simpleton1890

plover's provider1892

sand-runner1894

1710 in Fountainhall's Decisions (1761) II. 568 To restrict him to the fifth part of the rent was to send him to lift the rest of his stipend from windlestraws and sandy laverocks.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 152 I had rather that the rigs..bare naething but windle-straes and sandy-lavrocks.

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sandy mocking-bird n. U.S. the brown thrush, Harporynchus rufus.

sandy-oat n. a tall, early oat with small red and white grain.

ΚΠ

1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 21/2 The Sandy Oat is..sown, more particularly when the climate is inferior and wet.

sandy pate n. a sandy-haired person.

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sandy~pate, one red-hair'd.

1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue

sandy pear n. = sand pear n. at sand n.² Compounds 2c.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear

calewey1377

choke-pear1530

muscadel1555

lording1573

bon-chrétienc1575

Burgundian pear1578

king pear1585

amiot1600

bergamot1600

butter pear1600

dew-pear1600

greening1600

bottle pear1601

gourd-pear1601

critling1611

pearc1612

nutmeg1629

rosewater pear1629

amber pear1638

Christian1651

chesil1664

diego1664

frith-pear1664

primate1664

saffron pear1664

Windsor pear1664

nonsuch1674

muscat1675

burnt-cat1676

ambrette1686

sanguinole1693

satin1693

St. Germain pear1693

amadot1706

burree1719

Doyenne1731

beurré1736

colmar1736

chaumontel1755

Marie Louise1817

seckel1817

vergaloo1828

Passe Colmar1837

glou-morceau1859

London sugar1860

Kieffer pear1880

sand pear1880

sandy pear1884

nashi1892

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of

calewey1377

honey peara1400

pome-pear1440

pome-wardena1513

choke-pear1530

muscadel1555

worry pear1562

lording1573

bon-chrétienc1575

Burgundian pear1578

king pear1585

pound pear1585

poppering1597

wood of Jerusalem1597

muscadine1598

amiot1600

bergamot1600

butter pear1600

dew-pear1600

greening1600

mollart1600

roset1600

wax pear1600

bottle pear1601

gourd-pear1601

Venerian pear1601

musk pear1611

rose pear1611

pusill1615

Christian1629

nutmeg1629

rolling pear1629

surreine1629

sweater1629

amber pear1638

Venus-pear1648

horse-pear1657

Martin1658

russet1658

rousselet1660

diego1664

frith-pear1664

maudlin1664

Messire Jean1664

primate1664

sovereign1664

spindle-pear1664

stopple-pear1664

sugar-pear1664

virgin1664

Windsor pear1664

violet-pear1666

nonsuch1674

muscat1675

burnt-cat1676

squash pear1676

rose1678

Longueville1681

maiden-heart1685

ambrette1686

vermilion1691

admiral1693

sanguinole1693

satin1693

St. Germain pear1693

pounder pear1697

vine-pear1704

amadot1706

marchioness1706

marquise1706

Margaret1707

short-neck1707

musk1708

burree1719

marquis1728

union pear1728

Doyenne pear1731

Magdalene1731

beurré1736

colmar1736

Monsieur Jean1736

muscadella1736

swan's egg1736

chaumontel1755

St Michael's pear1796

Williams1807

Marie Louise1817

seckel1817

Bartlett1828

vergaloo1828

Passe Colmar1837

glou-morceau1859

London sugar1860

snow-pear1860

Comice1866

Kieffer pear1880

sand pear1880

sandy pear1884

snowy pear1884

1884 tr. A. de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Plants 233 Sandy Pear, Chinese Pear.

sandy ray n. Raia circularis, also R. maculata.

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia circularis (sandy ray)

owl-ray1862

sandy ray1870

1870 A. Günther Catal. Fishes Brit. Mus. VIII. 462 Raja circularis. Sandy Ray.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 346 Raia maculata... Sandy ray.

1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 348 Raia circularis... Sandy-ray.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sandy
释义	Sandyn. Brit. /ˈsandi/, U.S. /ˈsændi/ Forms: Also Middle English Sande, 1500s Sandie. Etymology: < Sandy, shortened form of the name Alexander, chiefly used in Scotland.1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 17 Item fra Sandy Wardrowpar, iij elne of blac.1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 89 Item, to Sande Boyd..iiij li. x s.?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 96 He has blind Hary and Sandy Traill Slane with his schour of mortall haill.1585 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 390/2 Sandie clark. Used as a nickname for: a Scotsman. Cf. sawney n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland ScoteOE rivlin?c1300 bere-bag1352 Scotchman1407 Scottishman1429 Scotsman?c1450 blue cap1598 North Britain1604 Jockc1641 Jacky1653 Whiglander1682 Albanian1685 sawneya1704 North Briton1718 Caledonian1768 Sandy1785 Scotchy1832 Scotty1851 haggis bag1892 haggis-eater1937 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sawny or Sandy, a general nick name for a Scotchman. 1888 Harper's Mag. Sept. 493 A party of Lowland Sandies who filled the other seats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sandyadj. Brit. /ˈsandi/, U.S. /ˈsændi/ Forms: Old English sandig, Middle English sondi, Middle English sondy(e, Middle English– sandy. Etymology: Old English sandig : see sand n.² and -y suffix¹. Compare Dutch zandig, Middle High German sandic (German sandig), Old Norse sǫndug-r (Swedish, Danish sandig). 1. a. Of the nature of sand; composed of or containing a large proportion of sand. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [adjective] > sand sandyc1000 gravellya1382 sandiferousa1586 sabulous1632 arenous1664 sandish1664 arenose1731 arenaceous1752 arenarious1759 sandyish1793 sabuline1909 sabulose1909 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 94 Ðeos wyrt..wihst..on sandigum landum. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvii. 17 Thei vseden girdyng to gidere of schipp, dredynge lest thei schulden falle into sandy placis. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 447 Lond myxt with cley, or sondy cley, faat sonde. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 41 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 107 Where the deepe did show his sandy flore. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 28 The Mason must work no Stone with Sandy veines. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 With sandy Ballast Sailors trim the Boat. View more context for this quotation 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 6 In other Parts it [the ocean] leaves wide sandy Plains. 1787 Trans. Soc. Arts 5 216 Rubbed in with a brickbat or sandy stone. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 175 The term sandy..should never be applied to any soil that does not contain at least ⁷/ ₈ of sand. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 169 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A subsoil, the deeper the sandier. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xi The spit of sandy rock which juts Spitefully northward. b. Of or containing sand as used for measuring time. (Cf. sand-glass n.) poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adjective] > of or relating to sundials gnomonical1570 gnomonic1601 sandy1607 gnomical1611 stylar1614 sciatherical1615 direct1659 skiagraphical1690 sciatheric1700 solar1728 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. F3^v O God, that it were possible..That time could turne vp his swift sandy glasse,..to redeeme these howres! a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. ii. 36 Ere the Glasse that now begins to runne, Finish the processe of his sandy houre. View more context for this quotation 1893 F. Thompson Poems 31 The sandy glass hence bear—Antique remembrancer. 2. figurative. Resembling sand as lacking the quality of cohesion or stability. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive sandy1590 incohering1659 incohesive1846 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. A 3^v You may easily perceiue what successe they are like to haue, that deale with so leaden and sandie braines. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes 265 The short shredder out of sandy sentences without lime. 1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 162 It were no service to you, to send you my notes upon the Book, because they are sandy, and incoherent ragges. 1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 29 Who build the Antiquitie of their Canonicall Howers vpon such a sandy foundation. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 39 But mark how sandy is your own pretence. 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers iii. 107 He said they [sc. the Quakers] were built upon a sandy Foundation, and so call'd them Shakers. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Amelia Wentworth in Dram. Scenes i Oh, what a picture have I raised upon My sandy wishes. 1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. i. 41 Now it was that men might clearly see on how sandy a foundation the grandeur of Spain was built. 3. Having hair of a yellowish-red colour; of hair, yellowish-red. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having redeOE rousec1400 red-haired?a1513 sandy?1530 red-headed1548 amber-crowneda1586 redhead1664 sandy-pated1687 red-polled1787 sandy-haireda1817 brick-topped1858 Titian-haired1880 the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red redc1275 auburn1591 Abraham?1592 sorrel1600 Abram1602 sandy-coloured1661 carrot1671 carrot-coloured1684 Judas colour1695 carroty1696 sandy1734 gingery1844 Titian1863 gingerous1864 ?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxx^v A sandy colte lyke an yren grey. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iv. i. sig. Di Hach your browne cow cast hir calfe, or your sandy sowe her pigs. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 841 The Tocomans..are sandie, small, but not so little as they say of the Pigmees. 1734 J. Swift Cassinus & Peter in Beautiful Nymph 27 Why, Plague confound her sandy Locks. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 98 He was a florid young man..with sandy hair. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. xi. 230 The ladies Fitz-Warene were sandy girls. 4. Qualifying the names of colours. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > yellowish yellowisha1398 saffronish1530 jaunish1597 sanded1600 saffrony1630 yellowy1667 sallow1747 sallowish1753 sandy1819 flavescent1853 sandyish1863 flavicant1871 chromy1883 1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 409 Oak, sandy red. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro xcix My mother's sandy-red cat. 1885 J. Beddoe Races of Brit. 266 Red [hair], and a sort of sandy-flaxen hue. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 67 Wing-coverts edged with sandy-buff. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 78 The..plumage is obscured by sandy-rufous edges to the feathers. Compounds C1. General attributive, parasynthetic. sandy-bottomed adj. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 64 From the bankes of Wye, And sandy bottomd Seuerne. View more context for this quotation sandy-coloured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red redc1275 auburn1591 Abraham?1592 sorrel1600 Abram1602 sandy-coloured1661 carrot1671 carrot-coloured1684 Judas colour1695 carroty1696 sandy1734 gingery1844 Titian1863 gingerous1864 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 86 The red or sandy coloured are the best. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey ix. 245 Her hair was cut..so as to cover her forehead with a straggling sandy-coloured fringe. sandy-haired adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having redeOE rousec1400 red-haired?a1513 sandy?1530 red-headed1548 amber-crowneda1586 redhead1664 sandy-pated1687 red-polled1787 sandy-haireda1817 brick-topped1858 Titian-haired1880 a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. iii. 49 Colonel Wallis's companion..certainly was not sandy-haired . View more context for this quotation 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ii. 10 She was..pale, sandy-haired. sandy-pated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having redeOE rousec1400 red-haired?a1513 sandy?1530 red-headed1548 amber-crowneda1586 redhead1664 sandy-pated1687 red-polled1787 sandy-haireda1817 brick-topped1858 Titian-haired1880 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 77 Your sandy-pated companions. C2. Special combinations. sandy blight n. Australian a kind of ophthalmia in which the eye feels as if full of sand (Morris). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of psorophthalmia1585 psorophthalmy1656 xerophthalmia1656 ophthalmia neonatorum1835 photophobophthalmia1842 sun blight1848 sand-blight1852 sandy blight1869 blepharoconjunctivitis1890 pink-eye1897 klieg eyes1923 bung eye1933 shipyard eye1943 red-eye1952 1869 J. F. Blanche Prince's Visit 20 The Prince was suffering from the sandy blight. sandy carpet n. a moth (see quot. 1829). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > member of genus Emmelesia > emmelesia decolorata sandy carpet1829 1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 148 [Emmelesia decolorata] Sandy Carpet. sandy hill crane n. = sand-hill crane n. at sand-hill n. b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus canadensis (sand-hill crane) sand-hill crane1805 sandy hill crane1819 1819 D. Thomas Trav. Western Country 210 A bird inhabits this country called the sandy hill Crane. 1825 W. Biggs Narr. Captivity among Kickapoo Indians (1922) 35 Sandy hill cranes boiled in leyed corn. sandy laverock n. = sand lark n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover) sea-lark1602 ringlestonesa1682 stone-runner1681 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 ring-necked plover1750 towillee1758 sand lark1771 ringed plover1776 ring dotterel1797 ring plover1797 dulwilly1802 ring-neck1837 ringed sand plover1842 stonehatch1852 miller1885 sand-runner1894 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper) sea-lark1602 sandpiper1674 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sand lark1771 summer snipe1794 shad-bird1879 fiddler1885 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin) stint1519 dunlin1531 oxbirda1547 sea-lark1602 purre1611 ox-eye1612 jack snipe1664 spar1668 pickerel1684 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sea-snipe1767 plover's page1771 sand lark1771 red-back1813 red-backed sandpiper1813 ebb-sleeper1837 oxybird1887 simpleton1890 plover's provider1892 sand-runner1894 1710 in Fountainhall's Decisions (1761) II. 568 To restrict him to the fifth part of the rent was to send him to lift the rest of his stipend from windlestraws and sandy laverocks. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 152 I had rather that the rigs..bare naething but windle-straes and sandy-lavrocks. Categories » sandy mocking-bird n. U.S. the brown thrush, Harporynchus rufus. sandy-oat n. a tall, early oat with small red and white grain. ΚΠ 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 21/2 The Sandy Oat is..sown, more particularly when the climate is inferior and wet. sandy pate n. a sandy-haired person. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sandy~pate, one red-hair'd. 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue sandy pear n. = sand pear n. at sand n.² Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear calewey1377 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 critling1611 pearc1612 nutmeg1629 rosewater pear1629 amber pear1638 Christian1651 chesil1664 diego1664 frith-pear1664 primate1664 saffron pear1664 Windsor pear1664 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 ambrette1686 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 amadot1706 burree1719 Doyenne1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 chaumontel1755 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 nashi1892 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of calewey1377 honey peara1400 pome-pear1440 pome-wardena1513 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 worry pear1562 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 pound pear1585 poppering1597 wood of Jerusalem1597 muscadine1598 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 mollart1600 roset1600 wax pear1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 Venerian pear1601 musk pear1611 rose pear1611 pusill1615 Christian1629 nutmeg1629 rolling pear1629 surreine1629 sweater1629 amber pear1638 Venus-pear1648 horse-pear1657 Martin1658 russet1658 rousselet1660 diego1664 frith-pear1664 maudlin1664 Messire Jean1664 primate1664 sovereign1664 spindle-pear1664 stopple-pear1664 sugar-pear1664 virgin1664 Windsor pear1664 violet-pear1666 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 squash pear1676 rose1678 Longueville1681 maiden-heart1685 ambrette1686 vermilion1691 admiral1693 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 pounder pear1697 vine-pear1704 amadot1706 marchioness1706 marquise1706 Margaret1707 short-neck1707 musk1708 burree1719 marquis1728 union pear1728 Doyenne pear1731 Magdalene1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 Monsieur Jean1736 muscadella1736 swan's egg1736 chaumontel1755 St Michael's pear1796 Williams1807 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 Bartlett1828 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 snow-pear1860 Comice1866 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 snowy pear1884 1884 tr. A. de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Plants 233 Sandy Pear, Chinese Pear. sandy ray n. Raia circularis, also R. maculata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia circularis (sandy ray) owl-ray1862 sandy ray1870 1870 A. Günther Catal. Fishes Brit. Mus. VIII. 462 Raja circularis. Sandy Ray. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 346 Raia maculata... Sandy ray. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 348 Raia circularis... Sandy-ray. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785adj.c1000
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sandyadj.

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