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单词 sea-sand
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sea-sandn.

Forms: see sea n. and sand n.2; also Middle English see-sownde.
1.
a. Sand of the sea or of the sea-shore.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > sand > types of
sea-sandc1220
black sand1536
gold sand1578
quicksand1641
iron sand1681
crag1735
Bude sand1808
musical sand1858
sounding sand1884
singing sand1897
squeaking sand1966
c1220 Bestiary 504 A neilond ðat sete one ðe se sond.
c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xlvii The messingerus welke bi the see sonde.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 206 Þen saw he a chylde syttyng on þe see-sownde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 184 A certaine kind of fruitfull Sea-sand.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 53 Sea-sand mingled with the Mould..contributes to the flourishing of this rare Exotick.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 21 Thou art long and lank and brown As is the ribb'd Sea-sand.
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) vi. 275 It is remarkable to see this graceful palm rising from the very sea-sand.
1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland I. iv. 103 One [sc. sling-missile], called the tathlum, made by the Dedannans, was composed of the blood of toads, bears, and vipers, mixed up with sea-sand and hardened.
b. plural. Grains of sea-sand. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude
sandc825
thousandc1000
un-i-rimeOE
legiona1325
fernc1325
multitudec1350
hundred1362
abundancec1384
quantityc1390
sight1390
felec1394
manyheada1400
lastc1405
sortc1475
infinityc1480
multiplie1488
numbers1488
power1489
many1525
flock1535
heapa1547
multitudine1547
sort1548
myriads1555
myriads1559
infinite1563
tot-quot1565
dickera1586
multiplea1595
troop1596
multitudes1598
myriad1611
sea-sands1656
plurality1657
a vast many1695
dozen1734
a good few1756
nation1762
vast1793
a wheen (of)1814
swad1828
lot1833
tribe1833
slew1839
such a many1841
right smart1842
a million and one1856
horde1860
a good several1865
sheaf1865
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
immense1872
dunnamuch1875
telephone number1880
umpty1905
dunnamany1906
skit1913
umpteen1919
zillion1922
gang1928
scrillion1935
jillion1942
900 number1977
gazillion1978
fuckload1984
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. lxxvii. 158 [They] do for number equal the stars of heaven, or the sea-sands.
2. plural. Tracts of sea-sand; = sand n.2 3a.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > sandy
sea-sandsc1420
sands1450
c1420 Anturs of Arth. 268 He shal lighte ful lowe on þe se sondes.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §572 The Sea-Sands seldome beare Plants.
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 160 The way thither is on the Sea-sands.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 18 The rude steps that wound down the cliff to the smooth sea-sands.
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