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Definition of Sands

1. Noun. The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean.

Definition of Sands

1. Noun. (plural of sand) ¹

2. Noun. sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) a unit of time. ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) a desert ¹

5. Verb. (third-person singular of sand) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sands

1. sand [v] - See also: sand

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sands

Literary usage of Sands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1859)
"by the said Comfort sands, and held by the president, direct- IN ERROR. ors, and company of the bank of New-York; such convey- ance from the said Henry ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court (1865)
"Pending that appeal, in May, 1809, the respond- report^or, 'So in the said cause, stating the judgment recovered by him men™; ^"bft against sands, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"The Lower Headon (freshwater) beds above the sands are recognised. 1824. ... 1] shows that he has taken into it some of the Barton sands which are really ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"sands died leaving by his will his wife as his legatee, and she by her agent accepted from the Philadelphia Company $75 as sands' half of the half of the ..."

5. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"The N. sands, extending towards Broadstairs, are beautifully firm and smooth. ... The dangerous sandbanks called the Goodwin sands, on which several ships ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1859)
"by the said Comfort sands, and held by the president, direct- IN ERROR. ors, and company of the bank of New-York; such convey- ance from the said Henry ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court (1865)
"Pending that appeal, in May, 1809, the respond- report^or, 'So in the said cause, stating the judgment recovered by him men™; ^"bft against sands, ..."

8. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"The Lower Headon (freshwater) beds above the sands are recognised. 1824. ... 1] shows that he has taken into it some of the Barton sands which are really ..."

9. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"sands died leaving by his will his wife as his legatee, and she by her agent accepted from the Philadelphia Company $75 as sands' half of the half of the ..."

10. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"The N. sands, extending towards Broadstairs, are beautifully firm and smooth. ... The dangerous sandbanks called the Goodwin sands, on which several ships ..."

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