{Molding, or Moulding}, {board}.
(a) See {Follow board}, under {Follow}, v. t.
(b) A board on which bread or pastry is kneaded and shaped.
{Molding, or Moulding}, {machine}.
(a) (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings. (
b ) (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for
castings.
{Molding, or Moulding}, {mill}, a mill for shaping timber.
{Molding, or Moulding}, {sand} (Founding), a kind of sand
containing clay, used in making molds.
That finer matter, called sand, is no other than
very small pebbles. --Woodward.
2. A single particle of such stone. [R.] --Shak.
3. The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of
time; the term or extent of one's life.
The sands are numbered that make up my life. --Shak.
4. pl. Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of
Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed
by the ebb of the tide. ``The Libyan sands.'' --Milton.
``The sands o' Dee.'' --C. Kingsley.
5. Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang]
{Sand badger} (Zo["o]l.), the Japanese badger ({Meles
ankuma}).
{Sand bag}.
(a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various
purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc.
(b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by
assassins.
{Sand ball}, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use
at the toilet.
{Sand bath}.
(a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which
vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed.
(b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand.
{Sand bed}, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited
naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of
sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a
reducing furnace.
{Sand birds} (Zo["o]l.), a collective name for numerous
species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers,
plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also {shore
birds}.
{Sand blast}, a process of engraving and cutting glass and
other hard substances by driving sand against them by a
steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the
process.
{Sand box}.
(a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling
paper with sand.
(b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on
the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent
slipping.
{Sand-box tree} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Hura
crepitans}). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody
capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud
report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of {Regma}.
{Sand bug} (Zo["o]l.), an American anomuran crustacean
({Hippa talpoidea}) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It
is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under
{Anomura}.
{Sand canal} (Zo["o]l.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous
coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the
madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in
function.
{Sand cock} (Zo["o]l.), the redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
{Sand collar}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Sand saucer}, below.
{Sand crab}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The lady crab.
(b) A land crab, or ocypodian.
{Sand crack} (Far.), a crack extending downward from the
coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes
lameness.
{Sand cricket} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
large terrestrial crickets of the genus {Stenophelmatus}
and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the
Western United States.
{Sand cusk} (Zo["o]l.), any ophidioid fish. See {Illust.}
under {Ophidioid}.
{Sand dab} (Zo["o]l.), a small American flounder ({Limanda
ferruginea}); -- called also {rusty dab}. The name is also
applied locally to other allied species.
{Sand darter} (Zo["o]l.), a small etheostomoid fish of the
Ohio valley ({Ammocrypta pellucida}).
{Sand dollar} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms,
especially {Echinarachnius parma} of the American coast.
{Sand drift}, drifting sand; also, a mound or bank of drifted
sand.
{Sand eel}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A lant, or launce.
(b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus
{Gonorhynchus}, having barbels about the mouth.
{Sand flag}, sandstone which splits up into flagstones.
{Sand flea}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in,
sandy places, especially the common dog flea.
(b) The chigoe.
(c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or
orchestian. See {Beach flea}, under {Beach}.
{Sand flood}, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind.
--James Bruce.
{Sand fluke}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The sandnecker.
(b) The European smooth dab ({Pleuronectes
microcephalus}); -- called also {kitt}, {marysole},
{smear dab}, {town dab}.
{Sand fly} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
dipterous flies of the genus {Simulium}, abounding on
sandy shores, especially {Simulium nocivum} of the United
States. They are very troublesome on account of their
biting habits. Called also {no-see-um}, {punky}, and
{midge}.
{Sand gall}. (Geol.) See {Sand pipe}, below.
{Sand grass} (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in
sand; especially, a tufted grass ({Triplasis purpurea})
with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leaves,
growing on the Atlantic coast.
2. To drive upon the sand. [Obs.] --Burton.
3. To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
4. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
[Colloq.]