Sandal
a protection for the foot, worn in ancient times, and which, in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament, is usually denoted by the word translated leather, or wood, bound on the foot by shoe. It was usually a sole of hide, thongs; but it may sometimes denote such shoes and buskins as eventually came into use. In transferring a possession or domain, it was customary among the SANDALS in our Middle Ages, a glove. Hence, the Jews to deliver a sandal (Ruth iv. 7), as action of throwing down a shoe on a region or territory was a symbol of occupancy (Ps. lx. 8). It was undoubtedly the custom to take off the sandals on in the presence of a superior. Hence the holy ground, in the act of worship, and command to take the sandals from the feet under such circumstances (Exod. iii. 5; Josh. v. 15). This is still the wellknown custom of the East-an Oriental taking off his shoe in cases in which a European would remove his hat. talum album, a small, greatly branched,