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Sand Wasp

the common name of a family of fossorial hymenopterous insects, the Sphegidæ of Latreille. There are numerous species, generally large, violet blue, sometimes banded with yellow; the females have a sting; there are no neuters, the female making her own nest in the sand.

SANDWICH (so called after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Kent, England, who used to have sandwiches brought to him at the gaming table, to enable him to play without leaving off), two thin slices of bread, plain or buttered, with a slice of meat, as ham, beef, etc., seasoned with mustard, between them; hence, applied to anything resembling a sandwich, i. e., consisting of a person or thing placed between two different things.

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