Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAND'IX, n.

A kind of minium or red lead, made of ceruse, but inferior to the true minium. Encyc.

SAND'PI-PER, n.

A bird of the genus Tringa.

SAND'STONE, n. [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 texture of some kinds is loose, of others close; the fracture is granular or earthy. – Cleaveland. Sandstones usually consist of the materials of older rocks, as granite, broken up and comminuted, and afterward deposited again. – D. Olmsted.

SAND'WICH, n.

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat between them.

SAND'-WORT, n.

A plant.

SAND'Y, a. [Sax. sandig.]

1. 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; as, a sandy foundation.
3. Of the color of sand; of a yellowish red color; as sandy hair.

SANE, a. [L. sanus, Eng. sound; D. gezond; G. gesund. This is the Eng. sound, Sax. sund. See Sound.]

1. Sound; not disordered or shattered; healthy; as, a sane body.
2. Sound; not disordered; having the regular exercise of reason and other faculties of the mind; as, a sane person; a person of a sane mind.

SANG, v. [pret. of Sing.]

SANG-FROID', n. [SANG FROID; song froaw'; Fr. cold blood.]

1. Coolness; freedom from agitation or excitement of mind.
2. Indifference.

SAN'GI-AC, n.

A Turkish governor of a province.

SAN-GUIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. sanguifer; sanguis, blood, and fero, to carry.]

Conveying blood. The sanguiferous vessels are the arteries and veins.

SAN-GUIF-I-CA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. sanguis, blood, and facio, to make.]

In the animal economy, the production of blood; the conversion of chyle into blood. – Arbuthnot.

SAN'GUI-FI-ER, n.

A producer of blood. – Floyer.

SAN-GUIF'LU-OUS, a. [L. sanguis, blood, and fluo, to flow.]

Floating or running with blood.

SAN'GUI-FY, v.i.

To produce blood. Hale.

SAN'GUI-FY-ING, ppr.

Producing blood.

SAN'GUIN-A-RI-LY, adv.

In a blood-thirsty manner.

SAN'GUIN-A-RY, a. [Fr. sanguinaire; L. sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest or battle.
2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion … makes us brutal and sanguinary. – Broome.

SAN'GUIN-A-RY, n.

A plant. – Ainsworth.

SAN'GUINE, or SAN'GUIN, a. [Fr. sanguin; L. sanguineus, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Red; having the color of blood; as, a sanguine color or countenance. – Dryden. Milton.
2. Abounding with blood; plethoric; as, a sanguine habit of body. [Technical.]
3. Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
4. Confident. He is sanguine in his expectations of success.

SAN'GUINE, n.

Blood color. [Not in use.] Spenser.

SAN'GUINE, v.t.

1. To stain with blood. [But ensanguine is generally used.]
2. To stain or varnish with a blood color.

SAN'GUINE-LESS, a.

Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]

SAN'GUINE-LY, adv.

Ardently; with confidence of success. – Chesterfield.

SAN'GUINE-NESS, n.

1. 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; confidence. – Decay of Piety.