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benight (medicine) and sand (sh)


benight (medicine)


benight


1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. "The clouds benight the sky." (Garth)

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure, . . . Benighted in these woods." (Milton)

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?" (Heber)

Origin: Benighted; Benighting.

Source: Websters Dictionary


sand (sh)




Mineral, rock, or soil particles that are 0.

0008-0.08 in. (0.02-2 mm) in diameter. Most rock-forming minerals are found in sand, but quartz is by far the most common. Most sands also contain a small quantity of feldspar, as well as white mica. All sands contain small quantities of heavy rock-forming minerals, including garnet, tourmaline, zircon, rutile, topaz, pyroxenes, and amphiboles. In the pottery and glassmaking Industries very pure quartz sands are used as a source of silica. Similar sands are used for lining the hearths of steel furnaces. Molds used in foundries for casting metal are made of sand with a clay binder. Quartz and garnet sands are used extensively as abrasives. Among ordinary sand's many uses, it is a basic ingredient of mortar, cement, and concrete. See also tar sand.