n. (Min.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Crandall, a proper name. ] (Stonecutting) A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t. To dress with a crandall. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sendal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sails of silk and ropes of sandal. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sandalwood. “Fans of sandal.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sandale, L. sandalium, Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_;, probably from Per. sandal. ] (a) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper. (b) A kind of slipper. (c) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wearing sandals. [ 1913 Webster ]

The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made like a sandal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sandal + -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. çandal, 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 Santalum pyrularium, the Australian Santalum 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. scandale, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. &unr_;, a snare laid for an enemy, a stumbling block, offense, scandal: cf. OE. scandle, OF. escandle. See Slander. ] 1. Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, what a scandal is it to our crown,
That two such noble peers as ye should jar! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I ] have brought scandal
To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt
In feeble hearts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. [ 1913 Webster ]

You must not put another scandal on him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

My known virtue is from scandal free. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Equity) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Defamation; detraction; slander; calumny; opprobrium; reproach; shame; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I do fawn on men and hug them hard
And after scandal them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scandalize; to offend. [ Obs. ] Bp. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To defame; traduce; reproach; slander; calumniate; asperse; vilify; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scandalized p. pr. & vb. n. Scandalizing ] [ F. scandaliser, L. scandalizare, from Gr. skandali`zein. ] 1. To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. [ 1913 Webster ]

To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. scandaleux. ] 1. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice,
Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being scandalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., scandal of magnates. ] (Law) A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Vandalus, Vandalius; of Teutonic origin, and probably originally signifying, a wanderer. Cf. Wander. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anc. Hist.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature, or anything valluable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Vandals of our isle,
Sworn foes to sense and law. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value. [ 1913 Webster ]