Sandman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A character in fairy tales and folklore who makes children go to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A legendary figure who is said to bring good sleep and dreams by placing sand in the eyes.
  • n. Used as a symbol of the passage of time to death.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fabulous person who is supposed to make children sleepy: probably so called in allusion to the rubbing of their eyes when sleepy, as if to rub out particles of sand.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    imp    gremlin    hob    brownie    pixy    elf    pixie   
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