sand-flea

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• Flea

  ·vt To <<Flay>>. II. Flea ·noun An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. F...

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• Flea

  David at the cave of Adullam thus addressed his persecutor Saul (1 Sam. 24:14): "After whom is the k...

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• Flea

  an insect but twice mentioned in Scripture, viz., in (1 Samuel 24:14; 26:20) Fleas are abundant in t...

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• Sand

  ·noun Courage; pluck; grit. II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand. III. Sand ·noun A single particle...

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• Flea-beetle

  ·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...

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• Flea-bite

  ·noun The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite. II. Flea-bite ·noun A trifling wound ...

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• Flea-bitten

  ·adj Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face. II. Flea-bitten ·adj White, flecked with minute dots...

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• Flea-louse

  ·noun A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psyll...

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• Water flea

  ·- Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphni...

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• flea bite

  A trifling injury. To send any one away with a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding. ...

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• beach-flea

  (Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...

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• flea-bane

  (Erigeron Canadense.) One of the most hardy and common weeds. It propagates itself rapidly, and sinc...

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• beach-flea

  A small crustacean (Talitra) frequenting sandy shores. ...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Sand-lot

  ·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• sand-lark

  n. name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm. 1867. W. Richa...

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• sand-stay

  n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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• sand-galls

  spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff. ...

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• sand-streak

  See garboard-strake ...

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• quick-sand

  A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...

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• sand-bags

  Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...

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• sand-drifts

  Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c. ...

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• sand-hills

  Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....

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• sand-hopper

  A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches. ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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• sand-piper

  A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• sand-strake

  A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake. ...

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• sand-warpt

  Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood. ...

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• shifting sand

  A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...

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• sand glass

  See short-time ...

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• rope of sand

  A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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