Salivous Sa·li"vous adjective [ Latin salivosus : confer French saliveux .] Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

Salix Sa"lix noun ; plural Salices . [ Latin , the willow.] (Botany) (a) A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds. (b) A tree or shrub of any kind of willow.

Sallenders Sal"len·ders noun plural [ French solandres , solandre .] (Far.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse. [ Written also sellanders , and sellenders .]

On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and " sallenders " in the hind leg.

Youatt.

Sallet Sal"let (săl"lĕt) noun [ French salade , Spanish celada , or Italian celata , from Latin (cassis) caelata , from caelare , caelatum , to engrave in relief. So called from the figures engraved upon it.] A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. [ Written also salade .]

Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved.

Latimer.

Sallet, Salleting Sal"let, Sal"let·ing noun Salad. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Salliance Sal"li·ance noun Salience. [ Obsolete]

Sallow Sal"low (săl"lo) noun [ Middle English salwe , Anglo-Saxon sealh ; akin to Old High German salaha , German salweide , Icelandic selja , Latin salix , Ir. sail , saileach , Gael. seileach , W. helyg , Greek "eli`kh .] 1. The willow; willow twigs. [ Poetic] Tennyson.

And bend the pliant sallow to a shield.

Fawkes.

The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.

Emerson.

2. (Botany) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea , S. cinerea , etc.

Sallow thorn (Botany) , a European thorny shrub ( Hippophae rhamnoides ) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.

Sallow Sal"low adjective [ Compar. Sallower ; superl. Sallowest .] [ Anglo-Saxon salu ; akin to Dutch zaluw , Old High German salo , Icelandic sölr yellow.] Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

Sallow Sal"low transitive verb To tinge with sallowness. [ Poetic]

July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields.

Lowell.

Sallowish Sal"low·ish adjective Somewhat sallow. Dickens.

Sallowness Sal"low·ness noun The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.

Sally Sal"ly (săl"lȳ) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sallied (-lĭd); present participle & verbal noun Sallying .] [ French saillir , from Latin salire to leap, spring, akin to Greek "a`llesqai ; confer Sanskrit sr to go, to flow. Confer Salient , Assail , Assault , Exult , Insult , Saltation , Saltire .] To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

They break the truce, and sally out by night.

Dryden.

The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host.

Byron.

Sally Sal"ly noun ; plural Sallies . [ French saillie , from saillir . See Sally , v. ] 1. A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.

2. A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.

Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss.

Bacon.

3. An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.

Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that . . . goes still round in the same track.

Locke.

4. A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.

The unaffected mirth with which she enjoyed his sallies .

Sir W. Scott.

5. Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.

The excursion was esteemed but a sally of youth.

Sir H. Wotton.

Sally port . (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie . (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

Sally Lunn Sal"ly Lunn" [ From a woman, Sally Lunn , who is said to have first made the cakes, and sold them in the streets of Bath, Eng.] A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.

Sallyman Sal"ly·man noun (Zoology) The velella; -- called also saleeman .

Salm Salm noun Psalm. [ Obs2E] Piers Plowman.

Salmagundi Sal`ma·gun"di noun [ French salmigondis , of uncertain origin; perhaps from Latin salgama condita , plural; salgama pickles + condita preserved (see Condite ); or from the Countess Salmagondi , lady of honor to Maria de Medici, who is said to have invented it; or confer Italian salame salt meat, and French salmis a ragout.] 1. A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

2. Hence, a mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany. W. Irving.

Salmi Sal"mi noun (Cookery) Same as Salmis .

Salmiac Sal"mi·ac noun [ Confer French salmiac , German salmiak .] (Old Chem.) Sal ammoniac. See under Sal .

Salmis Sal`mis" noun [ French] (Cookery) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

Salmon Salm"on (săm"ŭn) noun ; plural Salmons (-ŭnz) or ( collectively ) Salmon . [ Middle English saumoun , salmon , French saumon , from Latin salmo , salmonis , perhaps from salire to leap. Confer Sally , v. ] 1. (Zoology) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon ( Salmo salar ) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat .

» The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of their progress. The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Young salmon are called parr , peal , smolt , and grilse . Among the true salmons are: Black salmon , or Lake salmon , the namaycush. -- Dog salmon , a salmon of Western North America ( Oncorhynchus keta ). -- Humpbacked salmon , a Pacific-coast salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha ). -- King salmon , the quinnat. -- Landlocked salmon , a variety of the common salmon (var. Sebago ), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon .

Among fishes of other families which are locally and erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called jack salmon ; the spotted, or southern, squeteague; the cabrilla, called kelp salmon ; young pollock, called sea salmon ; and the California yellowtail.

2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

Salmon berry (Botany) , a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus . -- Salmon killer (Zoology) , a stickleback ( Gasterosteus cataphractus ) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder , Salmon stair . See Fish ladder , under Fish . -- Salmon peel , a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe , a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Salmon trout . (Zoology) (a) The European sea trout ( Salmo trutta ). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush . (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout ( Salmo purpuratus ), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

Salmon Salm"on adjective Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

Salmonet Salm"on·et noun [ Confer Samlet .] (Zoology) A salmon of small size; a samlet.

Salmonoid Sal"mon·oid adjective [ Salmon + -oid .] (Zoology) Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ , a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. -- noun Any fish of the family Salmonidæ .

Salogen Sal"o·gen noun [ Latin sal salt + -gen .] (Chemistry) A halogen. [ Obsolete]

Salol Sal"ol noun [ Salicylic + - ol .] (Chemistry) A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.

salometer sa·lom"e·ter noun See Salimeter .

Salometry Sa·lom"e·try noun Salimetry.

Salon Sa`lon" noun [ French See Saloon .] An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

Salon Sa`lon" noun An apartment for the reception and exhibition of works of art; hence, an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris by the Society of French Artists; -- sometimes called the Old Salon . New Salon is a popular name for an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux- Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890, seceded from the Société des Artistes Français (Society of French Artists).

Saloon Sa·loon" (sȧ*lōn") noun [ French salon (cf. Italian salone ), from French salle a large room, a hall, of German or Dutch origin; confer Old High German sal house, hall, German saal ; akin to Anglo-Saxon sæl , sele , Dutch zaal , Icelandic salr , Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably to Latin solum ground. Confer Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.] 1. 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.

The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls.

Macaulay.

2. Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon ; an eating saloon ; a dancing saloon .

We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [ at Athens.]

J. P. Mahaffy.

Saloop Sa·loop" (sȧ*lōp") noun An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Saloop bush (Botany) , an Australian shrub ( Rhagodia hastata ) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

Salp Salp (sălp) noun (Zoology) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidæ .

Salpa Sal"pa (săl"pȧ) noun ; plural Latin Salpæ (-pē), English Salpas (-pȧz). [ New Latin : confer Latin salpa a kind of stockfish.] (Zoology) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.

» Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from an internal organ, a series of the other kind. These are united together, side by side, so as to form a chain, or cluster, often of large size. Each of the individuals composing the chain carries a single egg, which develops into the solitary kind.

Salpian, Salpid Sal"pi·an, Sal"pid noun (Zoology) A salpa.

Salpicon Sal"pi·con noun [ French salpicon , Spanish salpicon .] Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. Bacon.

Salpingitis Sal`pin·gi"tis noun [ New Latin See Salpinx , and -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the salpinx.

Salpinx Sal"pinx noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., a trumpet.] (Old Anat.) The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.

Salsafy Sal"sa·fy noun (Botany) See Salsify .

Salsamentarious Sal`sa·men·ta"ri·ous adjective [ Latin salsamentarius , from salsamentum brine, pickled fish, from salsus salted, past participle of salire to salt.] Salt; salted; saline. [ R.]

Salse Salse noun [ French] A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

Salsify Sal"si·fy noun [ French salsifis .] (Botany) See Oyster plant (a) , under Oyster .

Salso-acid Sal"so-ac`id adjective [ Latin salsus salted, salt + acidus acid.] Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. [ R.]

Salsoda Sal`so"da noun See Sal soda , under Sal .

Salsola Sal"so·la noun [ New Latin , from Latin salsus salt, because they contain alkaline salts.] (Botany) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort .

salsuginous sal·su"gi·nous adjective [ Latin salsugo , -ginis , saltness, from salsus salted, salt: confer French salsugineux .] (Botany) Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.

Salt Salt noun [ Anglo-Saxon sealt ; akin to Old Saxon & OFries. salt , Dutch zout , German salz , Icelandic , Swedish , & Danish salt , Latin sal , Greek ..., Russian sole , Ir. & Gael. salann , W. halen , of unknown origin. Confer Sal , Salad , Salary , Saline , Sauce , Sausage .] 1. The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

2. Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us.

Shak.

3. Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt .

4. A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .

Pepys.

5. A sailor; -- usually qualified by old . [ Colloq.]

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .

Hawthorne.

6. (Chemistry) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

» Except in case of ammonium salts, accurately speaking, it is the acid radical which unites with the base or basic radical, with the elimination of hydrogen, of water, or of analogous compounds as side products. In the case of diacid and triacid bases, and of dibasic and tribasic acids, the mutual neutralization may vary in degree, producing respectively basic , neutral , or acid salts. See Phrases below.

7. Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt .

Ye are the salt of the earth.

Matt. v. 13.

8. plural Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

9. plural Marshes flooded by the tide. [ Prov. Eng.]

Above the salt , Below the salt , phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See Saltfoot .

His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt .

B. Jonson.

-- Acid salt (Chemistry) (a) A salt derived from an acid which has several replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals; as, acid potassium sulphate is an acid salt . (b) A salt, whatever its constitution, which merely gives an acid reaction; thus, copper sulphate, which is composed of a strong acid united with a weak base, is an acid salt in this sense, though theoretically it is a neutral salt. -- Alkaline salt (Chemistry) , a salt which gives an alkaline reaction, as sodium carbonate. -- Amphid salt (Old Chem.) , a salt of the oxy type, formerly regarded as composed of two oxides, an acid and a basic oxide. [ Obsolescent] -- Basic salt (Chemistry) (a) A salt which contains more of the basic constituent than is required to neutralize the acid . (b) An alkaline salt. -- Binary salt (Chemistry) , a salt of the oxy type conveniently regarded as composed of two ingredients (analogously to a haloid salt), viz., a metal and an acid radical. -- Double salt (Chemistry) , a salt regarded as formed by the union of two distinct salts, as common alum, potassium aluminium sulphate. See under Double . -- Epsom salts . See in the Vocabulary. -- Essential salt (Old Chem.) , a salt obtained by crystallizing plant juices. -- Ethereal salt . (Chemistry) See under Ethereal . -- Glauber's salt or salts . See in Vocabulary. -- Haloid salt (Chemistry) , a simple salt of a halogen acid, as sodium chloride. -- Microcosmic salt . (Chemistry) . See under Microcosmic . -- Neutral salt . (Chemistry) (a) A salt in which the acid and base (in theory) neutralize each other . (b) A salt which gives a neutral reaction. -- Oxy salt (Chemistry) , a salt derived from an oxygen acid. -- Per salt (Old Chem.) , a salt supposed to be derived from a peroxide base or analogous compound. [ Obsolete] -- Permanent salt , a salt which undergoes no change on exposure to the air. -- Proto salt (Chemistry) , a salt derived from a protoxide base or analogous compound. -- Rochelle salt . See under Rochelle . -- Salt of amber (Old Chem.) , succinic acid. -- Salt of colcothar (Old Chem.) , green vitriol, or sulphate of iron. -- Salt of hartshorn . (Old Chem.) (a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride . (b) Ammonium carbonate. Confer Spirit of hartshorn , under Hartshorn . -- Salt of lemons . (Chemistry) See Salt of sorrel , below. -- Salt of Saturn (Old Chem.) , sugar of lead; lead acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn . -- Salt of Seignette . Same as Rochelle salt . -- Salt of soda (Old Chem.) , sodium carbonate. -- Salt of sorrel (Old Chem.) , acid potassium oxalate, or potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains; -- so called because found in the sorrel, or Oxalis. Also sometimes inaccurately called salt of lemon . -- Salt of tartar (Old Chem.) , potassium carbonate; -- so called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate. [ Obsolete] -- Salt of Venus (Old Chem.) , blue vitriol; copper sulphate; -- the alchemical name of copper being Venus . -- Salt of wisdom . See Alembroth . -- Sedative salt (Old Med. Chem.) , boric acid. -- Sesqui salt (Chemistry) , a salt derived from a sesquioxide base or analogous compound. -- Spirit of salt . (Chemistry) See under Spirit . -- Sulpho salt (Chemistry) , a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.

Salt Salt adjective [ Compar. Salter ; superl. Saltest .] [ Anglo-Saxon sealt , salt . See Salt , noun ] 1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. " Salt tears." Chaucer.

2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.

Shak.

4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. Shak.

Salt acid (Chemistry) , hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block , an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom , a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [ Western U.S.] Bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chemistry) , the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process. -- Salt fish . (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food. (b) A marine fish. -- Salt garden , an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. -- Salt gauge , an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. -- Salt horse , salted beef. [ Slang] -- Salt junk , hard salt beef for use at sea. [ Slang] -- Salt lick . See Lick , noun -- Salt marsh , grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. -- Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zoology) , an American bombycid moth ( Spilosoma acræa which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear . See Illust. under Moth , Pupa , and Woolly bear , under Woolly . -- Salt-marsh fleabane (Botany) , a strong-scented composite herb ( Pluchea camphorata ) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes. -- Salt-marsh hen (Zoology) , the clapper rail. See under Rail . -- Salt- marsh terrapin (Zoology) , the diamond- back. -- Salt mine , a mine where rock salt is obtained. -- Salt pan . (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) plural Salt works. -- Salt pit , a pit where salt is obtained or made. -- Salt rising , a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [ U.S.] -- Salt raker , one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea. -- Salt sedative (Chemistry) , boracic acid. [ Obsolete] -- Salt spring , a spring of salt water. -- Salt tree (Botany) , a small leguminous tree ( Halimodendron argenteum ) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. -- Salt water , water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears.

Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a sort of traitors here.

Shak.

-- Salt-water sailor , an ocean mariner. -- Salt-water tailor . (Zoology) See Bluefish .

Salt Salt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Salted ; present participle & verbal noun Salting .] 1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

To salt a mine , to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [ Cant] -- To salt away , To salt down , to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

Salt Salt intransitive verb To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt .

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