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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
   [,c]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 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] Sandarach

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sanders \San"ders\, n. [See Sandal.]
   An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red
   sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
   [1913 Webster]

3. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Sanders -- U.S. County in Montana
   Population (2000):    10227
   Housing Units (2000): 5271
   Land area (2000):     2762.172012 sq. miles (7153.992364 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    27.858067 sq. miles (72.152060 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    2790.030079 sq. miles (7226.144424 sq. km)
   Located within:       Montana (MT), FIPS 30
   Location:             47.633114 N, 115.084463 W
   Headwords:
    Sanders
    Sanders, MT
    Sanders County
    Sanders County, MT


4. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Sanders, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
   Population (2000):    246
   Housing Units (2000): 90
   Land area (2000):     0.311369 sq. miles (0.806441 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.311369 sq. miles (0.806441 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            68358
   Located within:       Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
   Location:             38.655329 N, 84.946506 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     41083
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Sanders, KY
    Sanders


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