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sanded, ppl. a.|ˈsændɪd| [f. (in senses 1–4) sand n.2 and (senses 5–7) sand v.] †1. Of a sandy colour = sandy a. 3, 4. Obs.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 125 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kinde, So flew'd, so sanded. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 515 The colour of Swine is uncertain,..some are white, some branded, some sanded, some red. 1667Cotton Scarron. iv. 10 The Sun..that spruce light-headed fellow With frizled locks of sanded yellow. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2136/4 A white Sanded gray Mare, eight years old. †2. Sand-blind. Obs.
1629Gaule Pract. Theories Rules to Rdrs., My Poring, Prying, Pious Reader; With sanded, searching or with simple Eye. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Sanded, short⁓sighted. N[orth]. †3. Composed of or covered with sand; sandy.
1702Rowe Tamerl. ii. ii. 26 With Nations like the sanded Shore. 1726–46Thomson Winter 100 Dreadful down it [the river] comes..Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads. †4. Cast in sand, as opposed to ‘minted’. Obs.
1732in J. Tait Two Cent. Border Ch. Life iii. (1889) 64 Uncurrent money..consisting of doits, Irish halfpennies and sanded bodles. 1759in Scott. N. & Q. 2nd Ser. (1902) IV. 5/2 Bad sanded halfpennies. 5. Sprinkled with sand.
1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xxx, The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvii. 377 Fine lines resembling those produced by the passage of a rake over a sanded walk. 1869Trollope He Knew, etc. xxxii. (1878) 181 [He] was up-stairs in the sanded parlour of the Full Moon public-house. b. Of wood, etc.: Covered with a layer of sand to represent stone.
1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 716/1 Tawdry modern cast-iron work, ‘sanded’ to represent stone. 1889C. T. Davis Bricks ii. (ed. 2) 56 It is not considered an honest treatment of material to make painted and sanded wood take upon itself the appearance of stone. c. Of land: Dressed with sand.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 106 In well sanded Lands little or no Snow lies. 6. Adulterated with sand.
1883Daily News 21 Nov. 6/7 They never would get free from this sanded wool so long as they paid such big prices for it, since it really paid better at the price obtainable than the clean wool. 1895Min. 9th Nat. Council Congr. Ch. U.S. 151 To refrain from short yardsticks and sanded sugar. 7. Reduced to sand-like grains.
1897Syd. Soc. Lex., Sanded gum, powdered gum arabic. |