Pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin (1804-1876) French author. Her prolific literary output was often autobiographical. In 1831 she left her husband after nine years of marriage and, while living in Paris as a writer, had love affairs with Alfred de Musset, Chopin, and others. Her first novel Indiana 1832 was a plea for women’s right to independence.
Her other novels include la Mare au diable/The Devil’s Pool 1846 and la Petite Fadette/The Little Fairy 1848. In 1848 she retired to the château of Nohant, in central France.

sand je nebrojiva imenica

ETYM as. sand; akin to Dutch zand, German sand, Old High Germ. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. and Swed. sand, Greek.
A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
Loose grains of rock, sized 0.0625–2.00 mm/0.0025–0.08 in in diameter, consisting chiefly of quartz, but owing their varying color to mixtures of other minerals. Sand is used in cement-making, as an abrasive, in glass-making, and for other purposes.
Sands are classified into marine, freshwater, glacial, and terrestrial. Some “light” soils contain up to 50% sand. Sands may eventually consolidate into sandstone.

1. To grind down or make smooth by rubbing with an abrasive object, esp. with sandpaper.
2. To cover with sand.
3. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud

Singular of sand banks is sand bank.

Množina: sand blackberries

Stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida); SYN. Rubus cuneifolius.

Množina: sand bluestems

A tall rhizomatous North American grass (Andropogon hallii syn. A. gerardii var. paucipilus) that is a dominant grass of the originally tallgrass prairies and is used for forage and as a soil binder .

To pour molten metal into a mold of sand.
To make (a casting) by pouring metal in a sand mold.

Množina: sand castings

A casting made in a mold of sand.

Množina: sand castles

Množina: sand cats

A desert-dwelling wildcat.

Množina: sand cherries

Small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit; SYN. Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae, Prunus cuneata.

Množina: Sand cities

City in California (USA); zip code 93955.

Množina: sand cracks

A fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness.

Množina: sand crickets

Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the United States Pacific coast; SYN. Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus.

Množina: sand dabs

Any of several Pacific flounders (genus Citharichthys of the family Bothidae); especially; a common food fish (c. sordidus)
1. Small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America.
2. Small lean-fleshed fish of North American Pacific coast.