Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.

Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.

a period when a person is young and inexperienced.

A helmet. See Sallet.

Vegetables for salad.

See Saleratus.

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.

A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead.

Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.

A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.

Like or pertaining to the salamanders.

A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.

A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.

The salagane.

Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

See Salable, Salably, etc.

See Salep.

Roughness or ruggedness.

Rough; rugged.

The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.

Aerated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is largely used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingredient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks.

a tax imposed upon the retail sale of goods or the sale of services, usually collected by the seller at the time of purchase; -- it is typically calculated as a percentage of the price of the object sold, being commonly from 3% to 7% of the base price.

One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly.

Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic. A Salian Frank.

Same as Salient.

Salience; onslaught.

Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.

Belonging or relating to the willow.

A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous acid or spiroylous acid.

A salt of salicylic acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.

A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.

A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.

Same as Salicylal.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance formerly called salicylous acid, and now salicylal.

The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.

A salient angle or part; a projection.

In a salient manner.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt.

Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.

To combine or impregnate with a salt. To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid.

A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.

The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.

The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.

A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

The act of washing with salt water.

A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.

Same as Saliferous.

Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.

Salineness.

A salimeter.

Saline.

Salic.

A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.

The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).

A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.

The secretion from the salivary glands.

Salivary.

That which produces salivation.

Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.

To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.

The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.

Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds. A tree or shrub of any kind of willow.

An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.

A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.

Salad.

Salience.

To tinge with sallowness.

Somewhat sallow.

The quality or condition of being sallow.

A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.

The velella; -- called also saleeman.

Psalm.

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.

Same as Salmis.

Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.

A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

A genus of gram-negative bacteria that may be motile or non-motile; they are typically rod-shaped and may be aerobic or facultatively aerobic. They may be pathogenic for humans and other animals. Their metabolism is fermentative, and they produce acid and usually gas from glucose, but they do not metabolize lactose. The type species is Salmonella cholerae-suis, which is found in pigs. Other species, pathogenic in man, are Salmonella typhi (Salmonella typhosa), Salmonella typhimurium, and Salmonella schotmulleri, whih cause typhoid fever, food poisoning, and enteric fever, respectively.

Infection with bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

A salmon of small size; a samlet.

Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidae, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. Any fish of the family Salmonidae.

A halogen.

A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.

See Salimeter.

Salimetry.

An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.

An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London.

Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.

A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.

Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.

A salpa.

Inflammation of the salpinx.

The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.

See Salsify.

Salt; salted; saline.

A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid.

See Sal soda, under Sal.

A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Sea-green in color.

Leaping; jumping; dancing.