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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Airaines in Somme, so named from Latin harenas (accusative case) ‘sands’. The form of the name has been altered as a result of folk etymology, an association of the name with the metal.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
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English (Cumbria and Lancashire)
English (Cumbria and Lancashire) : habitational name for someone from Cartmel in Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), the site of a famous priory, inland from Cartmel Sands. The place name is derived from Old Norse kartr ‘rocky ground’ + melr ‘sandbank’.
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Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
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Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.
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A species of micaceous sandstone.
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A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
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Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.
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A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
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A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.
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One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
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A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
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To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
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The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
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Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
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A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.
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kind of sandstone.
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An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
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A species of calciferous sandstone.