&c.

SANDERLING. A small wading bird, _Calidris arenaria_.

SAND-HILLS. Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and
eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure.

SAND-HOPPER. A small creature (_Talitra_), resembling a shrimp, which
abounds on some beaches.

SAND-LAUNCE. _Ammodytes tobianus_, a small eel-like fish, which buries
itself in the sand.

SAND-PIPER. A name applied to many species of small wading birds found
on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and rivers, feeding on insects,
crustaceans, and worms.

SAND-SHOT. Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more
importance than form or hardness; the small balls used in case, grape,
&c., are thus produced.

SAND-STRAKE. A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake.

SAND-WARPT. Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at
half-flood.

SANGAREE. A well known beverage in both the Indies, composed of port or
madeira, water, lime-juice, sugar, and nutmeg, with an occasional
corrective of spirits. The name is derived from its being blood-red.
Also, arrack-punch.

SANGIAC. A Turkish governor; the name is also applied to the banner
which he is authorized to display, and has been mistaken for St.
Jacques.

SAP. That peculiar method by which a besieger's zig-zag approaches are
continuously advanced in spite of the musketry of the defenders; gabions
are successively placed in position, filled, and covered with earth, by
men working from behind the last completed portion of the trench, the
head of which is protected by a moving defence called a _sap-roller_.
Its progress is necessarily slow and arduous. There is also the _flying
sap_, used at greater distances, and by night, when a line of gabions is
planted and filled by a line of men working simultaneously; and the
_double sap_, used when zig-zags are no longer efficient, consisting of
two contiguous single saps, back to back, carried direct towards the
place, with frequent returns, which form traverses against enfilade; the
_half-double sap_ has its reverse side less complete than the last.

SARABAND. A forecastle dance, borrowed from the Moors of Africa.

SARACEN. A term applied in the middle ages indiscriminately to all
Pagans and Mahometans.

SARDINE. _Engraulis meletta_, a fish closely allied to the anchovy;
found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

SARGASSO. _Fucus natans_, or gulf-weed, the sea-weed always to be found
floating in large quantities in that part of the A