These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sand Flies, Sand Grouse, Sand Hopper.
the name of certain flies found in various countries, the bite of which may give rise to painful swellings. They are included in the family Tipulidæ, which also includes the well-known "daddy long legs," or crane flies.
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in ornithology, the family Pteroclidæ, called also rock pigeons. Elegantly formed birds, with pointed tails, and plumage of beautifully varied protective tints. They are preeminently desert birds, and are found in great numbers in the most arid situations and on the most open and barren plains. Their food consists of hard seed and insects. Pterocles setarius is the pin-tailed sand grouse, and Syrrhaptes paradoxus Pallas's sand grouse.
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in zoölogy: (1), the genus Talitrus, and especially T. locustas (2) The genus Gammarus.
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in zoölogy, the Lacerta agilis, about seven inches long, of which the tail is four; palatal teeth. Usual color sandy-brown, with obscure longitudinal bands of a darker due, line of round black spots on side. The female lays 12 to 14 eggs in the sand, covers them, and leaves them to be hatched by solar heat. Common in northern and central Europe.
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in ornithology, the Hirundo riparia, called also the bank martin and bank swallow; length about six inches; upper parts and a broad band across the breast grayish brown, lower parts brownish white. It makes its nest in the steep banks of rivers, sand pits, quarries, and sea banks, and deposits four or five white eggs. It breeds in N. latitudes, but goes S. in autumn, returning again in spring.
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in zoölogy, the Bathyergus me maritimus, a rodent from the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a wild rabbit, with light grayish-brown fur, rather variable in tint in different individuals. The eyes are very small; external ears wanting; tail short. abrading agent
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or SAND GALL, in geology (plural), deep cylindrical hollows in a vertical direction found in England, France, and elsewhere, penetrating the white chalk and filled with sand and gravel. One seen by Sir Charles Lyell at Norwich in 1839 was 12 feet in diameter, and more than 60 feet deep. Mr. Trimmer attributed them to the action of the sea on a beach or shoal; Lyell to the chemical action of water charged with carbonic acid, derived from the vegetable soil and the roots of trees, on the chalk below.
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The common kinds of sand-sifters are made to operate by either hand or power, and usually consist of a stout oblong frame supported on four legs, inside of which the sieve or riddle is caused to move rapidly back and forth by a mechanical device attached to the end of the frame. Some makers claim six movements of the sieve to each revolution of the driving-wheel or pulley; the object in this being to prevent clogging by imparting a constant jarring motion to the sifter. Other sifters are suspended from beams above, and an oscillating motion imparted to them by a three-toothed cam-pinion, the teeth of which thrust (alternately); pins in the slotted piece attached to the bar which actuates the sifter, and a rapid back-and-forth movement is imparted thereto. See RIDDLE.
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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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George, (1804-1876), the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, a French author. She was born in Paris, but was brought up at the Chateau of Nohant. She was educated at a convent, and in 1822 was married to M. Dudevant. The marriage proved unhappy, and in 1831 Madame Dudevant left Nohant and went to Paris with Jules Sandeau in order to lead an independent life. She began her literary work in collaboration with Sandeau, and her pen name was an abbreviation of his name. Her first independent novel was Indiana. Others are Valentine, Leila, Lavina, Metella, Simon, La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, Horace, and Consuelo. Her earlier writings are filled with the spirit of revolt against moral and social conditions. Her later works contain studies of country life and manners. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of her career as an author is the rapidity with which she produced volume after volume for many years. She was at one time much occupied with theological and philosophical speculations. She also entertained republican ideas of an exaggerated nature, and her views of life were one-sided. Consuelo is her best known work. The reputation of George Sand was extraordinary in her own time; but her works no longer occupy the place they once filled in the world of literature.
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The sand-bed of a cupola is the sand rammed on the bottom, on which the molten iron rests after it has been melted above and fallen down through the fuel thereon. The old or black sand off the floor, that which has been slightly burned, is the best to use for this purpose; being free from clay, it does not bake hard, and by using it a little drier than ordinary moulding-sand it may be rammed well down to a solid bed without fear of danger from blowing or boiling--a too frequent occurrence when the sand used for this purpose is close and too damp. The thickness of the sand-bed may always be increased when it is desired to reduce the depth from the tuyeres down, but there should never be less than 2 1/2 inches over the bottom plate. A slight down grade towards the tapping-hole is necessary to run all the iron off, but avoid too much slope, as it increases the pressure at the tapping-hole, making it more difficult to insert the bott. See CUPOLA; SPOUT; BREAST-HOLE; BOTT.
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