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| 3 results for sanders | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sanders \San"ders\, n. [See {Sandal}.] An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under {Sandalwood}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [cced]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S. latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}. | |
| From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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Sanders, KY (city, FIPS 68358) Location: 38.65465 N, 84.94676 W Population (1990): 231 (73 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41083 | |
