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.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

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.

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.

See Saltarello.

A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.

To leap or dance.

A leaping or jumping.

A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises.

Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.

Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing.

An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.

Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.

One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.

The European dab.

See Saltire.

A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders; called also Salticidae.

One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.

A mountebank; a quack.

The quality or state of containing salt; salt taste; as, the saltiness of sea water.

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.

In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

Somewhat salt.

Destitute of salt; insipid.

With taste of salt; in a salt manner.

A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

The quality or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water. In the sense of having salt content, saltiness is more commonly used.

Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.

A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Containing salt; tasting of salt; saltish; as, the salty sea; the potatoes are too salty.

Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.

The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate.

To salute.

Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.

The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.

By way of salutation.

A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.

The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.

One who salutes.