SALERATUS ported from Persia and Asia Minor. Salep occurs in commerce in small oval balls of a whitish-yellow colour, at times semi-transparent, of a horny aspect, very hard, with a faint peculiar smell, and a taste like that of gum-tragacanth, but slightly saline. It is much valued in the East for its supposed general stimulant properties, and is also esteemed as a nutritious food well suited to children and convalescents. For use it is ground into a fine powder, and mixed with boiling water, sugar and milk being added according to taste. As a diet drink it used to be considered very nutritious and wholesome in this country, and was sold in London at stalls ready prepared, as coffee, its substitute, now is. Saleratus (sal-e-rā'tus), n. [For sal aeratus, lit. aerated salt.] The prepared carbonate of soda and salt used for mixing with the flour in baking, to evolve the carbonic acid gas on the addition of water, and so make the bread light. Bret Harte. [United States.] Sale-room (sāl'röm), n. A room in which goods are sold; specifically, an auction room. Salesman (salz'man), n. One whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise; specifically, a wholesale dealer, of whom there are various kinds in important commercial centres; as, a cattle, meat, butter, hide, hay, fish, or other salesman. Simmonds.-Dead salesman, a wholesale dealer in butchermeat; one who disposes of consignments of dead meat by auction or other modes of sale. Salewe, Salue, v.t. [Fr. saluer.] To salute. Chaucer. Salework (sāl'wèrk), n. Work or things made for sale; hence, work carelessly done. I see no more in you than in the ordinary of Nature's salework. Shak. Salian (sa'li-an), a. Of or pertaining to a tribe of Franks who were settled on the Sala from the third to the middle of the fourth century. Salian (sa ́li-an), n. A member of a tribe of Franks. See the adjective. Salian (sä'li-an), a. Of or pertaining to the Salii or priests of Mars in ancient Rome.Salian hymns, songs sung at an annual festival by the priests of Mars, in praise of that deity, other gods, and of distinguished men. The songs were accompanied by warlike dances, the clashing of ancilia (shields of a peculiar form), &c. Saliant (sa'li-ant), a. In her. see SALIENT. Saliaunce,+ Saliance,† n. Assault or sally. Spenser. Salic (sal'ik), a. [Fr. salique.] A term applied to a law or code of laws belonging to the Salian Franks. One of the laws in this code excluded women from inheriting certain lands, probably because certain military duties were connected with the holding of those lands. In the fourteenth century females were excluded from the throne of France by the application of this law to the succession to the crown, and it is in this sense that the term salic law is commonly used. Salicaceæ (sal-i-kā'sē-ē), n. pl. [L. salix, salicis, a willow.] A nat. order of apetalous exogens, distinguished by a two-valved capsule, and numerous seeds tufted with long hairs. The species are trees or shrubs, inhabiting woods in the northern districts of Europe, Asia, and America. Only two genera are included in the order, Salix or willow, and Populus or poplar. Salicaceous (sal-i-ka'shus), a. Of or relating to the willow, or the order Salicaceæ. Salicetum (sal-i-se'tum), n. [L., from salix, a willow.] A willow plantation. Salicin, Salicine (sal'i-sin), n. [L. salix, a willow.] (C13H180.) A bitter crystallizable substance extracted from willow barks and from that of the poplar. It possesses tonic properties analogous to those of quinine, and is a valuable stomachic bitter. Salicornia (sal-i-korʼni-a), n. [From L. sal, xalis, salt, and cornu, a horn.] A genus of plants, nat. order Chenopodiaceae, the species of which are known by the common name of glasswort or saltwort, and well distinguished by their jointed stems. They are mostly weeds inhabiting moist salt districts on the coasts of the north of Europe, Africa, and America. S. herbacea and S. radicans are natives of Great Britain. S. herbacea, and many other species, yield a great quantity of soda. Salicylic (sal-i-sil′ik), a. [L. salix, a willow, and Gr. hyle, matter.] The name given to an acid (C-H6O3) obtained from oil of win 760 tergreen and from other sources, as salicin. It crystallizes in tufts of slender prisms. It has come into very general use as an antiseptic substance; and being devoid of poisonous properties it may be employed for preserving foods, &c., from decay. Salience (sa'li-ens), n. The quality or condition of being salient; the quality or state of projecting or being projected; projection; protrusion. The thickness and salience of the external frontal table remains apparent. Sir W. Hamilton. Salient (sä'li-ent), a. [L. saliens, ppr. of salio, to leap.] 1. Moving by leaps; leaping; bounding; jumping. 'Frogs and salient animals. Sir T. Browne.-2. Shooting up or out; springing; beating; throbbing. The salient spout.' Pope. A salient living spring of generous and manly action.' Burke. Do beating hearts of salient springs Keep measure with thine own? Tennyson. 3. Having the apex turned towards the outside; projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle. 4. Forcing itself on the notice or attention; conspicuous; prominent. He (Grenville) had neither salient traits nor comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft. 5. In her. a term applied to a lion or other beast represented in a leaping posture, with h.s right fore-foot in the dexter point, and his left hinder foot in the sinister base of the escutcheon. Written also Saliant. Salient (sali-ent), n. A salient angle or part; a projection. A lion salient. Saliently (să'li-ent-li), adv. In a salient manner. Saliferous (sa-lif'èr-us), a. [L. sal, salt, and fero, to produce. ] Producing or bearing salt; as, saliferous rock.-Saliferous system, an old geological term for the new red sandstone system, so named from salt being a characteristic of this system. Salifiable (sal'i-fi-a-bl), a. Capable of being salified or of combining with an acid to form a salt. Salification (sal'i-fi-kā"shon), n. The act of salifying. Salify (sal'i-fi), v. t. pret. & pp. salified; ppr. salifying. [L. sal, salt, and facio, to make.] To form into a salt by combining an acid with a base. Saligot (sal'i-got), n. [Fr.] A plant, Trapa natans. Salimeter (sa-lim'et-ér), n. [L. sal, salis, salt, and Gr. metron, a measure.] An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution. Salina (sa-li'na), n. [Sp., from L. sal, salt.] 1. A salt marsh or salt pond inclosed from the sea.-2. A place where salt is made from salt water; salt-works. Salination (sal-i-na'shon), n. [See below.] The act of washing with or soaking in salt liquor. The Egyptians might have been accustomed to wash the body with the same pickle they used in Greenhill. salination. form of salt. Salinity (sa-lin'i-ti), n. The state or quality of being saline or salt; salineness. The salinity of the deep water of the Atlantic differs very little from that of its surface-water, being sometimes a little greater and sometimes a little less. Dr. Carpenter. Salinometer (sal-i-nom'et-èr), n. [Saline, and Gr. metron, measure.] An apparatus for indicating the density of brine in the boilers of marine steam-engines, and thus showing when they should be cleansed by blowing off the deposit left by the salt water, which tends to injure the boilers as well as to diminish their evaporating power. Salino-terrene (sa-lin'ō-ter-ren"), a. [L. sal, salt, and terrenus, from terra, earth.] Pertaining to or composed of salt and earth. Salinous (sa-lin'us), a. Same as Saline. Sir T. Browne. Salique (sal'ik or sa-lēk′), a. Salic. Ful SALLET mined out her scorn of laws salique.' Tennyson. See SALIC. Salisburia (sal-is-bü'ri-a), n. [In honour of Richard Anthony Salisbury, a distinguished English botanist. ] A genus of plants, nat. order Taxace, the yew tribe. S. adiantifolia, a Japanese species (called ginkgo or gingo in Japan), is commonly cultivated, and is remarkable on account of its peculiar leaves resembling those of the fern called maiden-hair. The fruit is as large as a damson, and is resinous and astringent. The kernels are used in Japan to promote digestion. Salite † (sal'it), v. t. pret. & pp. salited; ppr. Salival (sa-li'val), a. Same as Salivary. Salivary (sal'i-va-ri), a. [L. salivarius.] Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as, salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals. Such animals as swallow their aliment without chewArbuthnot. ing want salivary glands. Salivate (sal'i-vät), v. t. pret. & pp. salivated; ppr. salivating. [L. salivo, salivare, to spit forth, to salivate. See SALIVA.] To purge by the salivary glands; to produce an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in, usually by mercury; to produce ptyalism in. Salivation (sal-i-va"shon), n. An abnormally abundant flow of saliva; the act or process of producing an excessive secretion of saliva, generally by means of mercury; ptyalism. Salivous (sa-li'vus), a. [L. salivosus.] Pertaining to saliva; partaking of the nature of saliva. Salivous humour." Wiseman. Salix (sa'liks), n. [L., a willow.] A genus of plants of the nat. order Salicaces. It consists of numerous species, all either trees or shrubs, occurring abundantly in all the cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. It comprehends the plants called osiers, sallows, and willows, and is of great economical value, not only for the purposes of the basketmaker, but because several species have a bark which contains a great quantity of tannin. British botanists are not agreed as to the number of species into which the native willows should be distributed, for while Bentham reckons only fifteen, Babington extends the list to fiftyeight. See WILLOW. Sallee-man (sa-le'man), n. A cœlenterate animal of the genus Velella (which see). Sallenders (sal ́en-dérz),n. See SELLANDERS. Sallet, Salade (sal'let, sal'ad), n. [Fr. 80 SALLET cælo, to engrave-so called from the figures cut on it.] A kind of light helmet, first used in the fifteenth century. Its characteristic mark is the projection behind. Sallets were made of various forms, and with and without the vizor. See a punning use of this term in extract under next word. Sallet, Salleting (sal'et, sal'et-ing), n. A salad. In the following extract there is a play upon this word and sallet in sense of a helmet. Wherefore have I climbed into this garden... to see if I can eat a grass or pick a sallet... which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. And, I think, this word sallet was born to do me good: for many a tinie, but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown-bill; and, many a time, when I have been dry, and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a quart-pot to drink in; and now the word sallet must serve me to feed on. Shak. Salliance + (sal'li-ans), n. Same as Salience. Sallow (sal'ló), n. [O.E. salewe, salwe, saluhe, A. Sax. sealh, salig, Sc. saugh, Icel. selja, Dan. salje, O.H.G. salaha, Mod. G. sahl; the word is widely spread; comp. L. salix, Gael. seileach, Ir. sail-sallow, willow; also Basque saliga, Finnish salawa, with same sense.] The common name of various species of the genus Salix or willow kind. The great or goat sallow (Salix caprea) puts forth its handsome yellow blossoms very early in the spring. Its bark is much used for tanning, and its wood for making implements of husbandry. It is also grown for hoop-making. Sallow (sal'lõ), a. [A. Sax. salu, salowig, sealwe, sallow, dark; Icel. sölr, D. saluwe, O.H.G. salo, pale. ] Having a yellowish colour; of a pale, sickly colour, tinged with a dark yellow: said of the skin or complexion; as, a sallow skin. Sally (sal'li), n. [Fr. saillie, from saillir, to leap, from L. salio, salire, to leap, to spring (whence salient).] 1. A leaping forth; a darting or shooting. I come from haunts of coot and hern, And sparkle out among the fern. Tennyson. 2. A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing or rushing of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; as, the garrison made a sally.-3. A spring or darting of intellect, fancy, or imagination; flight; sprightly exertion. These passages were intended for sallies of wit. Stilling fleet. 4. An excursion; a trip; a run. Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that like a mill-horse goes still round in the same track. Locke. 5. Act of levity or extravagance; wild gaiety; frolic; a going beyond ordinary rules. 'A sally of youth.' Sir J. Denham. Swift. Some sallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth. 6. In arch. a projection; the end of a piece of timber cut with an interior angle formed by two planes across the fibres, as the feet of common rafters. Sally (salli), v.i. pret. & pp. sallied; ppr. sallying. [From the noun.] To leap or rush out; to dart or burst forth; specifically, to issue suddenly, as a body of troops from a fortified place, to attack besiegers. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. Sally-lun, Sally-lunn (sal'li-lun), n. [From Sally Lunn, a young woman who sold this species of bun through the streets of Bath about the end of the eighteenth century.] A kind of sweet bun or tea-cake, larger than a muffin. It is toasted and eaten hot with butter. It is a sort of night that's meant for muffins: likewise crumpets; also sally-luns. Dickens. Sally-port (sal'li-port), n. 1. In fort. a postern gate, or a passage under ground from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress to troops in making a sally, closed by massive gates when not in use.-2. A large 761 port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired. Salmagundi, Salmagundy (sal-ma-gun'di), n. [Fr. salmigondis.] 1. A mixture of chopped meat, eggs, anchovies, red pickled cabbage, &c., served at table as a corner dish. Hence-2. A mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a miscellany. W. Irving. Salmi, Salmis (säl'mē), n. [Fr.] A ragout of roasted woodcocks, larks, thrushes, and other species of game, minced and stewed with wine, little pieces of bread, and other ingredients calculated to provoke the appetite. Salmiac (sal'mi-ak), n. A contraction of Sal Ammoniac. Salmo (sal'mo), n. [L., a salmon.] A genus of teleostean malacopterygious fishes, containing many species, of which the most important British member is S. salar, the salmon of our rivers. (See SALMON.) The salmon-trout is S. trutta, and the gray or bull trout S. eriox. In the North American rivers there are several species distinct from ours. Salmon (sam'un), n. [L. salmo, Fr. saumon.] A fish of the genus Salmo (the S. salar), found in all the northern portions of Europe, America, and Asia. The salmon is both a marine and a fresh-water fish. Its normal locality may be said to be the mouth or estuary of the larger rivers, whence, in the season of sexual excitement, it ascends to the spawning beds, which are frequently far inland, near the head-waters of the rivers. On reaching the spawning station the female by means of her tail makes a furrow in the gravelly bed of the river, in which she deposits her spawn or eggs, numbering many thousands, which, when impregnated by the male accompanying her, she carefully covers up by rapid sweeps of her tail. At this season the snout of the male undergoes a strange transformation, the under jaw becoming hooked upward with a cartilaginous excrescence, which is used as a weapon in the combats frequent when two or more males attach themselves to one female. In this condition he is known as a kipper. The time occupied in spawning is from three to twelve days, and the season extends from the end of autumn till spring. After spawning, the salmon, both male and female, proceed to the sea under the name of spent fish, foul fish, or kelts, the females being further distinguished as shedders or baggits. from 80 to 140 days the young fish emerges from the egg. At its emergence it is about In inch long, and not unlike a tadpole. In this embryo state it is nourished from a vitellicle, or umbilical vesicle, suspended under the belly, containing the red yolk of the egg and oil-globules, which constitute its food. When about fifty days old it assumes the appearance of a fish, is about 1 inch in length, and receives the name of samlet or parr. It continues in the shallows of its native stream till the following spring, when it is from 3 to 4 inches long, and is known as the May parr. It now descends into deeper parts of the river, where the weaker fish remain till the end of the second spring, the stronger ones remaining till the end of the first spring only. When the season of its migration arrives, generally the month of May or June, the fins have become darker and the fish has assumed a silvery hue. It is now known as a smolt or salmonfry. The smolts now congregate into shoals and proceed leisurely seaward. On reaching the estuary they remain in its brackish water for a short time, and then proceed to the open sea. Of their life there nothing is known, except that they grow with such rapidity that a fish which reaches the estuary weighing, it may be, not more than 2 ozs., may return to it from the sea, after a few months, as a grilse, weighing 8 or 10 lbs. A grilse under 2 lbs. is called a salmon peel. At two years and eight months the grilse becomes a salmon. The salmon returns in preference to the river in which it passed its earlier existence. It has been known to grow to the weight of 83 lbs.; more generally it is from 15 to 25 lbs. It furnishes a delicious dish for the table, and is an important article of commerce, the rivers of Scotland in particular supplying immense quantities for the market. Its flesh is of a pinkish orange colour. Salmon-colour (sam' un-kul-ér), n. colour of the flesh of the salmon. The SALSO-ACID Salmonet (sam'un-et), n. [Dim. of salmon.] A little salmon; a samlet. Salmonidæ (sal-mon'i-dē), n. pl. The salmon tribe, a family of fishes belonging to the Malacopterygii abdominales, of which the salmon is the type. Numerous species are found in the northern hemisphere, one of the largest of which is the common salmon (S. salar). Osmerus, Mallotus, Thymallus, Coregonus, Argentina, Anastomus, and Gasteroplectus are among the genera. Salmonoid (sam'un-oid), a. A term applied to fishes belonging to the tribe Salmonidæ, of which the salmon is the type. Salmon-trout (sam'un-trout),n. The Salmo trutta, a species which in value ranks next to the salmon itself. It resembles the salmon in form and colour, and is, like it, migratory, ascending rivers to deposit its spawn. Salon (sä-lon), n. [Fr.] An apartment for the reception of company; a saloon; hence, in the plural, fashionable assemblages; circles of fashionable society. Saloon (sa-lön'), n. [Fr. and Sp. salon, It. salone, from Fr. salle, It. and Sp. sala, a hall, from 0.H.G. sal, a house, an abode, same word as A. Sax. sal, a hall, a house.] 1. Any spacious or elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception; a large public room; also, a hall for public entertainments or amusement; an apartment for specific public use; as, the saloon of a steamer; a refreshment saloon, &c. The gilded saloons in which the first magnates of the realm. . . gave banquets and balls.' Macaulay. —2. In arch. a lofty, spacious hall, frequently vaulted at the top, and usually comprehending two stories, with two ranges of windows. It is often in the middle of a building, and is sometimes lighted from the top. Gwilt. Saloop (sa-lop'). Same as Salop. Salpa (sal'pa), n. [L. salpa, a kind of stockfish.] A genus of tunicate molluscs which float in the sea, protected by a transparent gelatinous coat, perforated for the passage of water at both extremities. These animals are very abundant in the Mediterranean, and the warmer parts of the ocean, and are frequently phosphorescent. They are met with in two conditions known as single and chain salpa. The latter give origin to the single forms by sexual reproduction, whilst the single forms produce the chain-salpæ by budding. Salpian (sal'pi-an), n. A tunicate mollusc of the genus Salpa (which see). Salpicon+ (sal'pi-kon), n. [Fr. and Sp., from salpicar, to besprinkle; Pg., to corn, to powder, from sal, salt, and picar, to prick.] Stuffing: farce; chopped meat or bread, &c., used to stuff legs of veal. Bacon. Salpida (sal'pi-dē), n. pl. A family of molluscs, of which Salpa is the typical genus. See SALPA. Salpingo-pharyngeus (sal-ping"go-fa-rin'jë-us), n. [Gr. salpingz, a tube or trumpet, and pharynge, the pharynx.] In anat. that part of the palato-pharyngeus muscle which arises from the mouth of the Eustachian tube. Salpinx (sal'pingks), n. [L.] In anat. the Eustachian tube. See EUSTACHIAN. Salsafy (sal'sa-fi). See SALSIFY. Salsamentarious † (sal'sa-men-tā"ri-us), a. [L. salsamentarius.] Pertaining to or containing salt; salted. Bailey. Salse (sals), n. [Fr. salse, from L. salsus, salted.] An eruption of hot acidulated mud from a small orifice, generally in volcanic regions, and frequently accompanied by steam and gases at a high temperature, which act powerfully on the surrounding solid matters, disintegrating and decomposing them, and forming new compounds. In some districts the gases are inflammable, and flames issue from the orifices. Page. Salsify (sal'si-fi), n. [Fr. salsifis, goat'sbeard.] A plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, called also purple goat's-beard. See GOAT'SBEARD. Written also Salsafy. Salsilla (sal-sil'la), n. [Sp., from L. salsus, salted, sal, salt.] A name of several amaryllidaceous plants producing edible tubers, and belonging to the genus Bomarea, or to the closely allied genus Alstromeria One species (B. or A. edulis) is cultivated in the West Indies, its roots being eaten like the potato; it is diaphoretic and diuretic. Other species, such as B. salsilla, are natives of the Peruvian Andes, and are pretty twining plants with showy flowers. Salso-acid (sal'sō-as-id), a. [L. salsus, salt, SALSOLA and acidus, acid.] Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidness. [Rare.] Salsola (sal'sō-la), n. [New L., from L. salsus, salt, in allusion to the alkaline salts which the species contain.] A genus of plants, nat. order Chenopodiacea; saltwort. The species are found chiefly on the sea-shore in temperate parts of the world, and also in hot parts where the soil is saline, or there is salt water in the vicinity. S. Kali, found on the coasts of Europe and many parts of the world, is one of the species which is burnt for the purpose of yielding kelp and barilla. It is a Salsola Kali (Prickly Saltwort). brittle succulent annual, with angular bristly stems and small pink flowers. It is very much branched, and forms a spreading bush a foot or a foot and a half high. S. Soda, found on the coasts of Spain, is employed for the same purpose. Other species, on the coasts of the Red Sea, yield soda. S. Kali is a British plant. Salsolaceous (sal-so-la'shus), a. Pertaining to the genus Salsola. Salsuginous (sal-su'jin-us), a. [L. salsugo, salsuginis, saltness, from sal, salt.] Saltish; somewhat salt. Boyle. Salt (salt), n. [A. Sax. sealt, salt-a word found throughout the Indo-European languages, as Fris. Dan. Sw. Icel. and Goth. salt, D. zout, G. salz, W. halen, Gael. and Ir. salann, Corn. and Armor. halinn, halen, Rus. soly, L. sal (hence Fr. sel, It. sale, Sp. sal), Gr. hals (=sals), Skr. sara.] 1. (NaCl) Chloride of sodium, formerly termed muriate of soda, a substance which has been known, and in common use, as a seasoner and preserver of food from the earliest ages. It is formed when chlorine and sodium or hydrochloric acid and soda come together. It possesses a crystalline structure, derived from the cube, which is its primitive form. It is found in immense quantity dissolved in sea-water and in the water of salt-springs, and in smaller quantity in all natural waters, by which, indeed, it is carried to the sea, where it accumulates. Salt is also found abundantly, as rock-salt, in various countries, large beds of it (which when worked are termed salt-mines) being situated between the coal formation and the lias. It is obtained from sea-water by simple evaporation, either spontaneous or with the aid of heat; but immense quantities are obtained from the salt-mines in the neighbourhood of Northwich, in Cheshire, and the salt-springs in Cheshire and Worcestershire furnish a large proportion of the salt made use of in Great Britain. One chief use of salt is as an antiseptic in curing meat; it is also largely employed as a condiment to food, or rather as a substance indispensable to digestion. Common salt is the starting-point in the manufacture of soda crystals, in the manufacture of chlorine, &c. It forms a glaze for coarse pottery; it improves the whiteness and clearness of glass; it gives hardness to soap; it is used as a mordant, and for improving certain colours; and enters more or less into many other processes of the arts. 2. In chem. a term the exact meaning of which it is difficult to define. In its widest sense the term salt may be used to include all chemical elements and compounds. It is generally applied, however, to compounds only, and more particularly to such as readily undergo double decomposition. The products of such decompositions are usually also termed salts. The nomenclature of salts has reference to the acids from which they are derived. For example, sulphates, nitrates, carbonates, &c., imply salts of sulphuric, nitric, and carbonic acids. The termination ate implies the maximum of oxygen in the acids, and ite the minimum. If neither the acid nor base of a salt be in excess it is termed a neutral salt; if the acid predominate it is called an acid salt, and if the base prevail it is called a basic salt. Many salts are 762 hydrous, that is, they contain a definite proportion of water of crystallization; others are dry or anhydrous salts. Some salts attract moisture when exposed to air, and are called deliquescent; others suffer their water to escape, and become opaque or pulverulent: these are called efflorescent salts. The combination of salts with each other gives rise to compounds called double salts, as sulphate of calcium and sodium, the borofluoride of potassium, &c. According to the views of modern chemists all true acids are hydrogen compounds, and all their salts compounds of metals with radicals, simple or compound. Hence they define an acid to be a compound containing hydrogen, which can be, in whole or in part, replaced by metal; and a salt, a compound formed by replacing the hydrogen of an acid by a metal. Decrepitating salts, those which burst when heated, with a crackling noise, into smaller fragments, as the nitrates of baryta and lead. Essential salts, those which are procured from the juices of plants by crystallization.- Fixed salts, those which are prepared by calcining, then boiling the matter in water, straining off the liquor, and evaporating all the moisture, when the salt remains in the form of a powder. Fusible salt, the phosphate of ammonia.-Incompatible salt. See INCOMPATIBLE.-Microcosmic salt. See MICROCOSMIC. Native salts, mineral bodies resembling precious stones or gems in their external character, and so named to distinguish them from artificial salts.-Permanent salts, those which undergo no change on exposure to the air.-Volatile salts, such as are procured principally from animal substances or the fermented parts of plants, as the subcarbonate of ammonia. -Salt of lemons, binoxalate of potash: often used to remove stains of iron rust, &c., from linen. The name is also applied to oxalic acid, used for the same purpose.-Salt of Saturn, acetate of lead; sugar of lead: from Saturn, the alchemistic name of lead.-Salt of soda, carbonate of soda.-Salt of sorrel. Same as Salt of Lemons.-Salt of tartar, carbonate of potash, which was first prepared from cream of tartar.--Salt of tin, a term applied by dyers and calico-printers to protochloride of tin, which is extensively used as a mordant, and for the purpose of deoxidizing indigo and the peroxides of iron and manganese.-Salt of vitriol, sulphate of zinc. -Salt of wisdom, a double chloride of mercury and ammonium.-Salt perlate, phosphate of soda.-Spirit of salt, muriatic or hydrochloric acid.-3. Taste; smack; savour; flavour. Though we are justices, and doctors, and churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our youth in us. Shak. 4. Wit; piquancy; pungency; sarcasm; as, Attic salt.-5. That which seasons or gives flavour; that which preserves from corruption. Mat. v. 13. 6. A vessel for holding salt; a salt-cellar 'A dozen of silver salts.' Pepys. Ye are the salt of the earth. Another salt was fashioned of silver, in form of a swan in full sail. Sir W Scott. 7. A marshy place flooded by the tide. [Provincial.]-8. A sailor, especially an old sailor. [Colloq.]-Above or below the salt, phrases having their origin in the subordination formerly maintained among persons at the same table. The family salt-cellar, a utensil of massive silver, was placed near the middle of the table, and persons of distinction were seated above it, while dependants and inferior guests sat below it. Frequent reference to this custom is to be found in the old dramatists and other early writers. His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt. B Jonson -To be worth one's salt, to be worthy of one's hire. He loved to earn his money. He delighted to bethat he was worth his salt. Dickens. lieve.. Salt (salt), a. 1. Furnished or impregnated with salt; abounding in, containing, or producing salt; prepared with or tasting of salt; as, salt beef; salt water; a salt spring. 2. Overflowed with or growing in salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass or hay. 3. Sharp; bitter; pungent. The pride and salt scorn of his eyes.' Shak.-4. Lecherous; salacious. His salt and most hidden loose affection.' Shak.-5. Costly; dear; expensive; as, he paid a salt price for it. [Colloq.] SALT-FOOT Salt (salt), v. t. 1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork.-2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.-To salt an invoice, account, &c., to put on the extreme value on each article, in some cases in order to be able to make what seems a liberal discount at payment.-To salt a mine, to sprinkle a few grains of gold-dust over an unproductive hole, a trick among gold-diggers when they want to obtain a high price for their claim from an inexperienced person. Salt (salt), v.i. To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt. Salt + (salt), n. [0. Fr. sault, L. saltus, a leap.] A leap; the act of jumping. Frisking lambs make wanton salts." B. Jonson. Saltant (sal'tant), a. [L. saltans, saltantis, ppr. of salto, to leap.] 1. Leaping; jumping; dancing.-2. In her. a term applied to the squirrel, weasel, rat, and all vermin, and also to the cat, greyhound, ape, and monkey, when in a position springing for ward. Saltarello (sal-ta-rello), n. [It.] 1. A brisk Neapolitan dance somewhat resembling a jig. 2. The music for such a dance, which is written in triple time.-3. A harpsichord jack, so called because it jumps on the key being struck. Saltate (sal'tat), v.i. pret. saltated; ppr. saltating. [L. salto, saltatum, a freq. from salio, to leap.] To leap; to jump; to skip. [Rare.] Saltation (sal-ta'shon), n. [L. saltatio, saltationis, from salto, a freq. of salio, to leap.] 1. A leaping or jumping. The locusts being ordained for saltation, their hinder legs do far exceed the others. Sir T. Browne. 2. Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery. Wiseman. Saltatores (sal-ta-to'rēz), n. pl. See SALTI GRADES. Saltatoria (sal-ta-to'ri-a), n. pl. [L. saltatorius, leaping. See SALTATION.] The name given by Cuvier to his second family of orthopterous insects, which have the four anterior legs simple and short, and the two hind-legs long, and formed for leaping. It includes the crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, &c. Saltatorious (sal-ta-to'ri-us), a. Saltatory. Same as Saltatory (sal'ta-to-ri), a. [See above.] Leaping or dancing, or having the power of leaping or dancing; adapted for leaping. The hind-legs of the kangaroo, cricket, &c., are saltatory. Salt-box (salt'boks), n. A wooden box, rather deep, with a sloped lid, used for holding salt in kitchens, &c. Salt-butter (salt'but-ér), n. Butter seasoned with salt to make it keep. Shakspere uses it as an adjective: 'Mechanical salt-butter rogue' (that is, dealing in salt-butter) Saltcake (salt'kāk), n. The technical name for the sulphate of soda produced in the manufacture of soda-ash. It is used by soap-boilers and crown-glass makers. Salt-cat (salt'kat), n. A lump of salt, made at a salt-work; also, a mixture of gravel, loam, rubbish of old walls, cummin-seed, salt, and stale urine, for food to pigeons. Mortimer. Salt-cellar (salt'sel-lér), n. [A tautological term, lit. a salt-salt-dish, cellar here being= Fr. salière, a salt-cellar, from L. sal, salt.] A small vessel used for holding salt on the table. When any salt is spilt on the table-cloth, shake it out into the salt-cellar Swift. Salt-duty (salt'du-ti), n. A duty on salt; in London, a duty formerly payable to the lord-mayor, &c., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part. Salter (salt'èr), n. 1. One who salts; one who gives or applies salt.-2. One that sells salt. 3. A drysalter. The incorporated salters, or drysalters, of London form one of the city livery companies. Saltern (salt'èrn), n. A salt-work; a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; more especially, a plot of retentive land, laid out in pools and walks, where the sea-water is admitted to be evaporated by the heat of the sun's rays. E. H. Knight. Salt-fish (salt'fish), n. 1. Fish in brine, or fish salted and dried.-2. A fish from salt water. Salt-foot (salt'fut), n. A large salt-cellar formerly placed near the middle of a long table to mark the place of division between SALT-GREEN the superior and the inferior guests. See under SALT. Salt-green + (salt'grēn), a. Green like the sea. Salt-holder (salt'hōld-ér), n. A salt-cellar. Lord Lytton. Salticus (sal'ti-kus), n. [L. salticus, dancing, from salio, saltum, to dance.] A genus of wandering spiders which do not spin webs, and are to be observed on walls, palings, &c., in hot and fine weather. The S. formicarius is a common British spécies. Saltier (sal'tër), n. Same as Saltire. Saltier (sal'tër), n. A blunder for Satyr. There is three carriers, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair, they call themselves saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols. Shak. Saltigrada (sal'ti-grā-da), n. pl. [L. saltus, a leap, and gradior, to walk.] A tribe of spiders which seize their prey by leaping upon it from a distance. Called also Salta tores. Saltigrade (sal'ti-grad), a. Leaping; formed for leaping. Saltigrade (sal'ti-grad), n. One of the Saltigrada. Saltinbanco, Saltimbanco + (sal-tinbang'ko, sal-tim-bang'kō) n. [It. saltimbanco, Fr. saltimbanque, a mountebank; It. saltare in banco, to leap on the bench, to mount on the bench.] A mountebank; a quack. Saltinbancoes, quacksalvers, and charlatans deceive them. Sir T. Browne. Salting (salt'ing), n. A salt-marsh. Saltire, Saltier (sal'ter), n. [O. Fr. saultoir, Mod. Fr. sautoir, originally a kind of stirrup, from sauter, L. salto, intens. of salio, to leap.] In her. an ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, formed by two bends, dexter and sinister, crossing each other. Long-shaped charges (swords, batons, &c.), placed in the direction Saltire. of the saltire, are said to be borne saltirewise. tured or impregnated moderately with salt. The saltish surge.' Mir. for Mags. Saltishly (salt'ish-li), adv. With a moderate degree of saltness. Saltishness (salt'ish-nes), n. The state or quality of being saltish. Salt-junk (salt'jungk), n. Dry salt beef for use at sea. Saltless (salt'les), a. Destitute of salt; insipid. Salt-lick (salt'lik), n. A salt-spring. [United States. ] Saltly (salt'li), adv. In a salt manner; with the taste of salt. Salt-marsh (salt'märsh), n. Land under pasture-grasses or herbage plants, subject to be overflowed by the sea, or by the waters of estuaries, or the outlets of rivers which, in consequence of proximity to the sea, are more or less impregnated with salt. Salt-mine (salt'min), n. A mine where rocksalt is obtained. Saltness (salt'nes), n. The quality or state of being salt or impregnated with salt; as, the saltness of sea-water or of provisions. The difference between saltness and bitterness.' Bacon. Salt-pan (salt'pan), n. A large shallow pan or vessel in which salt-water or brine is evaporated in order to obtain salt. The term is also applied, especially in the plural, to salt-works and to natural or artificial ponds or sheets of water in which salt is produced by evaporation. Saltpetre (salt'pë-tèr), n. [Salt, and Gr. petros, a stone.] A salt, called also Nitre, and in chemical nomenclature Nitrate of Potassium or Potassic Nitrate. See NITRE. Saltpetrous (salt-pē'trus), a. Pertaining to saltpetre or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpetre. Salt-pit (salt'pit), n. A pit where salt is got; a salt-pan. Salt-radical (salt-rad'i-kal), n. In chem a simple or compound substance capable of combining with a metal or compound substance, as ammonium, which may take the place of a metal. Salt-raker (salt-rāk'èr), n. One employed in raking or collecting salt in natural salt 763 ponds or in inclosures from the sea. Simmonds. Salt-rheum (salt'rum), n. A vague and indefinite popular name applied to almost all the non-febrile cutaneous eruptions which are common among adults, except ringworm and itch. Salts (salts), n. pl. A colloquial equivalent of Epsom-salt or other salt used as a medicine. Smelling salts, a preparation of carbonate of ammonia with some agreeable scent, as lavender or bergamot, used by ladies as a stimulant and restorative in case of faintness. Salt-sea (salt'sē), a. Pertaining to the sea acid. Salt - spring (salt'spring), n. A spring of salt-water; a brine-spring. Salt-water (salt'wa-tér), n. Water impregnated with salt; sea-water. Salt-water (salt'wa-tér), a. Pertaining or relating to salt-water (that is, the sea); belonging to the sea; used at sea; as, salt-water phrases. Thou salt-water thief.' Shak. Salt-work (salt'wèrk), n. A house or place where salt is made. A popular name Saltwort (salt'wert), n. applied to the species of Salsola, and also to Salicornia annua and Glaux maritima. See SALSOLA. Salty (sal'ti), a. Somewhat salt; saltish. Salubrious (sa-lubri-us), a. [L. saluber, salubris, from salus, health. Akin safe (which see).] Favourable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air; a salubrious climate. The warm limbeck draws Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. F. Philips. The climate (of Simla) is considered highly salu brious. Thornton's Gaz. of India. SYN. Healthful, wholesome, healthy, salutary. Salubriously (sa-lū'bri-us-li), adv. In a salubrious manner; so as to promote health. Burke. Salubriousness, Salubrity (sa-lubri-usnes, sa-lū'bri-ti), n. [L. salubritas.] The state or quality of being salubrious; wholesomeness; healthfulness; favourableness to the preservation of health; as, the salubrity of air, of a country or climate. Salue, .t. [Fr. saluer, to salute.] To salute. Chaucer. Salutarily (sal'ū-ta-ri-li), adv. In a salutary manner; favourably to health. Salutariness (sal'u-ta-ri-nes), n. 1. The quality of being salutary or of contributing to health; wholesomeness. Johnson.-2. The quality of promoting good or prosperity. Salutary (sal'u-ta-ri), a. [Fr. salutaire; L. salutaris, from salus, salutis, health, safety.] 1. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health. The gardens, yards, and avenues are dry and clean; and so more salutary as more elegant. Ray. 2. Promotive of or contributing to some beneficial purpose. He had no doubt passed salutary laws; but what assurance was there that he would not break them? Macaulay. SYN. Wholesome, healthful, salubrious, beneficial, useful, advantageous, profitable. Salutation (sal-ŭ-tā'shon), n. [Fr., from L. salutatio. See SALUTE.] The act of saluting or paying respect or reverence by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting; also, that which is done or uttered in the act of saluting or greeting. It may consist in the expression of kind wishes, bowing, shaking hands, embracing, uncovering the head, or the like. The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. Shak. In all public meetings or private addresses, use the forms of salutation, reverence, and decency, usual among the most sober persons. Fer. Taylor. SYN. Greeting, salute, address. Salutatorian (sa-lu'ta-tō"ri-an), n. In the United States, the student of a college who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual commencement or like exercises. Salutatorily (sa-lü'ta-to-ri-li), adv. By way of salutation. Salutatory (sa-lū'ta-to-ri), a. Greeting. In the United States, an epithet applied to the oration which introduces the exercises of the commencements in colleges. Salutatory (sa-lu'ta-to-ri), n. Place of greeting; a vestibule; a porch. Coming to the bishop with supplication into the salutatory, some out-porch of the church.' Milton. 2. To greet with a kiss, a wave of the hand, an uncovering of the head, a bow, or the like; as, to pass a person without saluting him. Addison.-3. In the army or navy, to honour, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of great guns or small arms, by dipping colours, by shouts, or the like. See the noun.-4. To contribute a healthful influence to; to benefit; to please; to gratify. Would I had no being Shak If this salute my blood a jot. Salute (sa-lut'), v. i. To perform a salutation; to greet each other. Saw them salute on horseback.' Shak. Salute (sa-lut'), n. 1. The act of expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting. O, what avails me now that honour high To have conceived of God, or that salute,Hail, highly favoured, among women blest! Milton. 2. A kiss. There cold salutes, but here a lover's kiss.' Roscommon.-3. In the army and navy, a compliment paid when a royal or other distinguished personage presents himself, when squadrons or other bodies meet, when officers are buried, and on many other ceremonial occasions. There are many modes of giving a salute-firing cannon or small arms, dipping colours, flags, and topsails, presenting arms, manning the yards, cheering, &c. A royal salute consists in the firing of twenty-one guns, in the lowering by officers of their sword points, and the dipping of the colours. Such forms of salute as the firing of guns, lowering of swords, and presenting arms, alike render the ship or soldier so doing powerless for aggression at the time, and thus symbolize friendliness, or the voluntary putting of the party saluting into the power of the party saluted. Have you manned the quay to give me the honour of a salute upon taking command of my ship? Sir W. Scott 4. A gold coin, of the value of 25s., struck by Henry V. after his conquests in France. It was so named from the salutation represented on it, viz. the Virgin Mary holding a shield with the arms of France, and the angel holding another with the arms of France and England quarterly, with the word 'Ave!' (Hail!) in a scroll. Salutes were also coined in the reign of Henry VI. Saluter (sa-lút ́ér), n. One who salutes. Salutiferous (sal-u-tif'èr-us), a. [L. salutifer-salus, health, and fero, to bring. ] Bringing health; healthy; salutary. The gentle salutiferous air of Montpellier.' Dennis. [Rare.] Salutiferously. (sal-ū-tif'ér-us-li), adv. In a salutiferous manner. Cudworth. [Rare.] Salvability (sal-va-bil'i-ti), n. The state of being salvable; the possibility of being saved. Why do we Christians so fiercely argue against the salvability of each other, as if it were our wish that all should be damned but those of our particular sect? Dr. H. More. Salvable (sal'va-bl), a. [From L. salvo, salvatum, to save, from salvus, safe.] Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. Our wild fancies about God's decrees have in event reprobated more than those decrees, and have bid fair to the damning of many whom those left salvable. Dr. H. More. Salvableness (sal'va-bl-nes), n. State of being salvable. Salvably (sal'va-bli), adv. In a salvable manner. Salvadora (sal-va-dō'ra), n. A genus of plants, nat. order Salvadoracem. They have stems with slightly swollen joints, opposite entire leaves, and loose branching panicles of small flowers. S. persica is supposed to be the mustard plant of Scripture, which has very small seeds, and grows into a tree. Its fruit is succulent and tastes like garden cress. The bark of the root is acrid. Salvadoraceæ (sal'va-dō-rā”sē-ē), n. pl. A small nat. order of monopetalous dicotyledons, allied to Oleaceae and Jasminaceæ. The few known species are found in India, Syria, and North Africa. The genus Salvadora is the type. See SALVADORA. Salvage (sal'vāj), n. [Fr., from L. L. salvagium, from L. salvus, safe.] 1. The act of saving a ship or goods from extraordinary danger, as from the sea, fire, an enemy, or SALVAGE the like.-2. In commercial and maritime law, (a) an allowance or compensation to which those persons are entitled by whose voluntary exertions ships or goods have been saved from the dangers of the sea, fire, pirates, or enemies. The crew of a ship are not entitled to salvage for any extraordinary efforts they may have made in saving their own vessel. If the salvors and the parties from whom salvage is claimed cannot agree, a competent court has to fix the sum to be paid and adjust the proportions, which vary according to circumstances. (b) That portion of the property saved from danger or destruction by the extraordinary and voluntary exertions of the salvors. Salvage (sal'väj), a. [O. Fr. saulvage. See SAVAGE] Savage; rude; cruel. Salvage (sal'vāj), n. A savage or wild person. Salvagesse (sal'va-jes), n. Savageness; wildness. Spenser. Salvatella (sal-va-tella), n. [It., dim. of L. salvator, from salvo, salvatum, to save.] A vein situated on the back of the hand, near its inner margin, so called because the ancients recommended it to be opened in certain diseases, as melancholic and hypochondriacal affections, the abstraction of blood from it having considerable efficacy in the cure of disease. Dunglison. Salvation (sal-va'shon), n. [Ö. Fr. salvation, from L. salvo, salvatum, to save, from salvus, safe, same root as salus, salutis, safety (whence salute).] 1. The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger, or great calamity-2. The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death and the conferring on him everlasting happiness; attainment of eternal bliss; the bliss of heaven. To earn salvation for the sons of men.' Milton. 'High in salvation and the climes of bliss.' Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Cor. vii, 10. 3. Manifestation of saving power. Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to-day. Ex. xiv. 13. 4. That which saves; the cause of saving. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Ps. xxvii. 1. Salvatory (sal'va-to-ri), n. [Fr. salvatoire. See SALVATION.] A place where things are preserved; a repository. In what salvatories or repositories the species of things past are conserved.' Sir M. Hale. Salve (säv or salv), n. [A. Sax. sealf, a salve, an ointment; D. zalve, Dan. salve, G. salbe, O.H.G. salba, salve, ointment. See verb.] 1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.-2. Help; remedy. If they shall excommunicate me, hath the doctrine of meekness any salve for me then? Hammond. Salve (sav or salv), v. t. pret. & pp. salved; ppr. salving. [A. Sax. sealfian, from the noun; cog. Dan. salve, O. Sax. and Goth. salbón; from root sal, whence L. salvus, safe, &c.] 1. To apply salve to; to heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by some remedy. 'May salve the long-grown wounds.' Shak. Many skilful leeches him abide Spenser. To salve his wounds. 3. To help or remedy by a salvo, excuse, or reservation. Milton. [Rare.] Salvet (salv), v.t. [L. salve, hail, God save you.] To salute. By this the stranger knight in presence came, Salve (salv), v. t. [From the noun salvage.] To save, as a ship or goods, from danger or destruction, as from shipwreck, fire, or the like; as, to salve a cargo. Scotsman newspaper. Salver (sal'ver), n. [Sp. salva, a salver; also the previous tasting of a great man's food by a servant to see that it is wholesome, from L. salvus, safe. ] A kind of tray or waiter for table service, or on which anything is presented to a person. Salver (sav'ér), n. One who salves or cures, or one who pretends to cure; as, a quacksalver. Salve Regina (sal'vē rë-ji'na), n. [L., Hail, Queen (of Heaven).] One of the most popular prayers of the Roman Catholic Church, so named from its first words, forming part of the daily breviary, but still more used for private devotion. 764 Salver-shaped (sal'ver-shāpt), a. In bot. a term applied to a monopetalous corolla having the tube short and the limb spreading out flat, as in the primrose. Salvia (sal'vi-a), n. [L., from salvo, to save-in allusion to the reputed healing virtues of the plant.] A genus of plants, including the common sage. See SAGE. Salvific (sal-vif'ik), a. [L. Salver-shaped Corolla. salvus, safe, and facio, to make.] Tending to save or secure safety. [Rare and obsolete.] Salvo (sal'vo), n. [From the L. salvo jure, 'the right being intact,' an expression used in reserving rights.] An exception; reservation; an excuse. Any private salvves or evasions.' Addison. They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eikon Basilikē. Salvo (sal'võ), n. [Fr. salve, It. salva, a salvo, a salute, from L. salve, hail, salvus, safe.] 1. A general discharge of guns intended for a salute. On the King's arrival at the camp, he was received with the honours of a victor; with flourishes of trumpets, salvos of artillery, and the loud shouts of the soldiery. Prescott. 2. A concentrated fire from a greater or less number of pieces of artillery, for the purpose of breaching, &c., the simultaneous concussion of a number of cannon-balls on masonry, or even earth-work, producing a very destructive result.-3. The combined shouts or cheers of a multitude, generally expressive of honour, esteem, admiration, &c.; as, salvos of applause. Sal-volatile (sal-vo-lat'i-le), n. See under SAL Salvor (sal'vor), n. One who saves a ship or goods from wreck, destruction by fire, or the like. Samt (sam), adv. [See SAME.] Together. Spenser. Samara (sam'a-ra), n. Samare (sa-mär), n. [See SIMARRE.] A kind of jacket anciently worn by ladies, having a loose body and four side-laps or skirts extending to the knee. Randle Holme. Written also Samarra, Semmar, &c. Samaritan (sa-mar'i-tan), a. 1. Pertaining to Samaria, the principal city of the ten tribes of Israel, belonging to the tribe of Ephraim, and after the captivity of those tribes repeopled by Cuthites from Assyria or Chaldea. 2. Applied to the characters of a kind of ancient Hebrew writing probably in use before, and partly after, the Babylonish exile. Samaritan (sa-mar'i-tan), n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Samaria, or one that belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. Jn. iv. 9.-2. The language of Samaria, a dialect of the Chaldean -3. A charitable or benevolent person: in allusion to the character of the 'good Samaritan' in the parable. Samaroid (sam'a-roid), a. Resembling a samara. See SAMARA. Samarra (sa-mara), n. Same as Samare. Samaveda (sa'ma-ve-da), n. The name of one of the four Vedas, or sacred hymns of Hindustan. The Samaveda means the Veda containing samans or hymns for chanting. Sambo (sam'bo), n. The offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo. Samboo (sam'bu), n. The East Indian name of the Indian elk (Rusa aristotelis), a large and powerful animal, nearly 5 feet high, of a deep brown colour, with the hair of the neck almost developed into a mane. It is generally a savage and morose creature, being especially vicious when it is decorated with its powerful horns, which do not attain their full size till the eighth year of the animal. This species inhabits the great forests of Northern India, and the mountains above them. Called also Sambur. Sambucus (sam-bū’kus), n. [L., elderwood.] A genus of trees, natives of Europe and North America. See ELDER. Sambuke (sam'būk), n. [L. sambuca.] An SAMLET ancient musical instrument, described by some writers as a wind-instrument and by others as stringed. The name has been applied to instruments such as a lyre, a dulcimer, a triangular harp or trigon, but it seems to have been chiefly applied to a large Asiatic harp. Stainer & Barrett. Sambur (sam'bur), n. Same as Samboo. Same (sam), a. [A. Sax. same, used only as an adverb, in such phrases as swâ same sửa, the same as; as an adjective it is probably borrowed from the Scandinavian; Icel. samr, Dan, and Sw. samme, O. Sax. and Goth. sama; cog. L. similis, like, simul, together; Gr. hama, together, homos, the same; Skr. sama, like, equal, entire.] 1. Identical; not different or other; as, the same man, or the selfsame man I saw yesterday. The very same man.' Shak. The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 1 Cor. xi. 23. By happy chance we saw A twofold image; on a grassy bank 2. Of the identical kind, species, or degree; equal; exactly similar, though not the specific thing; as, the horse of one country is the same animal as the horse of another country; we see in men in all countries the same passions and the same vices. Th' ethereal vigour is in all the same. Dryden. Skinner, it is well known, held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend. Macaulay. 3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned or denoted. That same word rebellion.' Shak. This same sober-blooded boy." Shak. Often used for the sake of emphasis or the expression of contempt or vexation. 'Run after that same peevish messenger." Shak. A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine.' Shak. Whatsoever is done to my brother (if he be a Christian man) the same is done to me. Tyndale. A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats, And for the same he promised me a chain. Shak Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve. Daniel -All the same, nevertheless; notwithstanding; in spite of all. the same. We see persons make good fortunes by them all Disratit. [This word is always preceded by the demonstrative words the, this, that, &c.] Samet (sam), adv. Together. Sameness (sām'nes), n. 1. The state of being the same; absence of difference: identity; as, the sameness of an unchangeable being. 2. Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of manner.-3. Want of variety; tedious monotony; as, the sameness of objects in a landscape. 'With weary sameness in the rhymes.' Tennyson.-SYN. Identity, identicalness, oneness. Samester, Samestre (sa-mes'tèr), n. A variety of coral. Simmonds. Samettet (sa-met'), n. Samian (sa'mi-an), a. the isle of Samos. Same as Samite. Byron. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. -Samian earth, the name of an argillaceous earth found in the island of Samos, and formerly used in medicine as an astringent. Samian letter. Same as Pythagorean Letter. See PYTHAGOREAN. When reason doubtful, like the Samian letter. Points him two ways. Pept -Samian stone, a stone found in the island of Samos, used for polishing by goldsmiths, &c.-Samian ware, a name given to an ancient kind of pottery made of Samian earth or other fine earth. The vases are of a bright red or black colour, covered with a lustrous siliceous glaze, with separatelymoulded ornaments attached to them. Samian (sa'mi-an), n. A native or inhabitant of Samos. Samiel (sa'mi-el), n. The Turkish name for the simoom (which see). Used adjectively: 'Burning and headlong as the Samiel wind.' Moore. Samiot, Samiote (sä'mi-ot), n. and a. Same as Samian. Samite (sa'mit), n. [0. Fr. samit, from L. L. samitum, from Gr. hexamiton-her, six, and mitos, a thread.] In anc. costume, a rich silk stuff interwoven with gold or embroidered. A robe Of Samite without price, that more exprest Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs. Tennyson. Samlet (sam'let), n. [Dim. of salmon.] Another name for the parr. See PARR |