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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAND'Y, a.
1. Abounding with sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as a sandy desert or plain; a sandy road or soil.
2. Consisting of sand; not firm or solid; as a sandy foundation.
3. Of the color of sand; of a yellowish red color; as sandy hair.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks" [syn: flaxen, sandy]
2: resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses" [syn: arenaceous, sandy, sandlike] [ant: argillaceous, clayey]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sandier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. consisting of or containing sand ; full of sand b. sprinkled with sand 2. of the color sand • sandiness noun

Merriam Webster's

geographical name city N Utah S of Salt Lake City population 88,418

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sandier, sandiest) 1 having the texture of sand. 2 having much sand. 3 a (of hair) yellowish-red. b (of a person) having sandy hair. Phrases and idioms: sandy blight Austral. conjunctivitis with sandlike grains in the eye. Derivatives: sandiness n. sandyish adj. Etymology: OE sandig (as SAND)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sandy Sand"y, a. [Compar. Sandier; superl. Sandiest.] [AS. sandig.] 1. Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil. 2. Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sandier, sandiest) 1. A sandy area is covered with sand. ...long, sandy beaches. ADJ 2. Sandy hair is light orangey-brown in colour. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Sabulous, gritty. 2. Unstable, shifting, arenaceous. 3. Yellowish-red, sand-colored.

Moby Thesaurus

Saharan, anhydrous, arenaceous, arenarious, arid, athirst, aureate, auric, beige, bone-dry, breccial, brecciated, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, craggy, cream, creamy, crystal, crystalline, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, high and dry, juiceless, lapideous, lemon, lemon-yellow, like parchment, lithoid, lithoidal, luteolous, lutescent, monolithic, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, sabulous, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sapless, shingled, shingly, stonelike, stony, straw, straw-colored, thirsting, thirsty, trachytic, undamped, unwatered, waterless, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish