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sea-sand
Forms: see sea n. and sand n.2; also 5 see-sownde.
1. Sand of the sea or of the sea-shore.
c1220Bestiary 504 A neilond ðat sete one ðe se sond. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xlvii, The messingerus welke bi the see sonde. c1450Mirk's Festial 206 Þen saw he a chylde syttyng on þe see-sownde. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 184 A certaine kind of fruitfull Sea-sand. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Apr. (1699) 53 Sea-sand mingled with the Mould..contributes to the flourishing of this rare Exotick. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iv. i, Thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribb'd sea-sand. 1845Gosse Ocean vi. (1849) 275 It is remarkable to see this graceful palm rising from the very sea-sand.
†b. pl. Grains of sea-sand. Obs.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. 158 [They] do for number equal the stars of heaven, or the sea-sands.
2. pl. Tracts of sea-sand; = sand n.2 3 a.
c1420Anturs of Arth. 268 He shal lighte ful lowe on þe se sondes. 1626Bacon Sylva §572 The Sea-Sands seldome beare Plants. 1644Vicars God in Mount 160 The way thither is on the Sea-sands. 1838Lytton Alice i. iii, The rude steps that wound down the cliff to the smooth sea-sands. |