Salamandroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders.
Salamandroidea (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.
Salamstone (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.
Salangana (n.) The salagane.
Salaried (a.) Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.
Salary (a.) Saline
Salaries (pl. ) of Salary
Salary (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
Salaried (imp. & p. p.) of Salary
Salarying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salary
Salary (v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Sale (n.) See 1st Sallow.
Sale (v. t.) 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.
Sale (v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
Sale (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
Saleable (adv.) Alt. of Saleably
Saleably (adv.) See Salable, Salably, etc.
Saleb (n.) See Salep.
Salebrosity (n.) Roughness or ruggedness.
Salebrous (a.) Rough; rugged.
Salep (n.) 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.
Saleratus (n.) 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.
Salesmen (pl. ) of Salesman
Salesman (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Saleswomen (pl. ) of Saleswoman
Saleswoman (n.) A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Salework (n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly.
Salian (a.) Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.
Salian (n.) A Salian Frank.
Saliant (a.) Same as Salient.
Saliaunce (a.) Salience; onslaught.
Salic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.
Salicaceous (a.) Belonging or relating to the willow.
Salicin (n.) A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.
Salicyl (n.) The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.
Salicylal (n.) 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, / spiroylous, acid.
Salicylate (n.) A salt of salicylic acid.
Salicylic (a.) 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.
Salicylide (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.
Salicylite (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.
Salicylol (n.) Same as Salicylal.
Salicylous (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance formerly called salicylous acid, and now salicylal.
Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Salience (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
Saliency (n.) Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.
Salient (v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
Salient (v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
Salient (v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
Salient (v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
Salient (a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.
Saliently (adv.) In a salient manner.
Saliferous (a.) Producing, or impregnated with, salt.
Salifiable (a.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.
Salification (n.) The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.
Salified (imp. & p. p.) of Salify
Salifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salify
Salify (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with a salt.
Salify (v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid.
Saligenin (n.) A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.
Saligot (n.) The water chestnut (Trapa natans).
Salimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.
Salimetry (n.) The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.
Salina (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.
Salina (a.) Salt works.
Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.
Saline (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
Saline (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
Saline (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Saline (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
Saline (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
Salineness (n.) The quality or state of being salt; saltness.
Saliniferous (a.) Same as Saliferous.
Saliniform (a.) Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.
Salinity (n.) Salineness.
Salinometer (n.) A salimeter.
Salinous (a.) Saline.
Salique (a.) Salic.
Saliretin (n.) A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.
Salisburia (n.) The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).
Salite (v. t.) To season with salt; to salt.
Salite (n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
Saliva (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.
Salival (a.) Salivary.
Salivant (a.) Producing salivation.
Salivant (n.) That which produces salivation.
Salivary (a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
Salivated (imp. & p. p.) of Salivate
Salivating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salivate
Salivate (v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
Salivate (v. i.) To produce saliva, esp. in excess.
Salivation (n.) The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
Salivous (a.) Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.
Salices (pl. ) of Salix
Salix (n.) A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.
Salix (n.) A tree or shrub of any kind of willow.
Sallenders (n. pl.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
Sallet (n.) A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.
Sallet (n.) Alt. of Salleting