Saltigradae (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.
Saltigrade (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Saltigrade (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Salting (n.) The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.
Salting (n.) A salt marsh.
Saltire (v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Saltirewise (adv.) 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.
Saltish (a.) Somewhat salt.
Saltless (a.) Destitute of salt; insipid.
Saltly (adv.) With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
Saltmouth (n.) A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
Saltness (n.) The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.
Saltpeter (n.) Alt. of Saltpetre
Saltpetre (n.) 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.
Saltpetrous (a.) Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
Salt rheum () A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.
Saltwort (n.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.
Salty (a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.
Salubrious (a.) Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Salubrity (n.) 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.
Salue (v. t.) To salute.
Salutary (a.) Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
Salutary (a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Salutation (n.) 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.
Salutatorian (n.) 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.
Salutatorily (adv.) By way of salutation.
Salutatory (a.) Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.
Salutatory (n.) A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
Salutatory (n.) The salutatory oration.
Saluted (imp. & p. p.) of Salute
Saluting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salute
Salute (v. t.) To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
Salute (v. t.) Hence, to give a sign of good will; to compliment by an act or ceremony, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
Salute (v. t.) To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.
Salute (v. t.) To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
Salute (v.) The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.
Salute (v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
Salute (v.) A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc.
Saluter (n.) One who salutes.
Salutiferous (a.) Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air.
Salutiferously (adv.) Salutarily.
Salvability (n.) The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
Salvable (a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
Salvage (n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
Salvage (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
Salvage (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
Salvage (a. & n.) Savage.
Salvation (n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
Salvation (n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
Salvation (n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Salvationist (n.) An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
Salvatory (n.) A place where things are preserved; a repository.
Salve (interj.) Hail!
Salve (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
Salve (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
Salve (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
Salved (imp. & p. p.) of Salve
Salving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salve
Salve (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
Salve (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
Salve (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
Salver (n.) A salvor.
Salver (n.) A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
Salvia (n.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.
Salvific (a.) Tending to save or secure safety.
Salvos (pl. ) of Salvo
Salvo (n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
Salvo (n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
Salvo (n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Salvor (n.) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
Sam (a.) Together.
Samara (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Samare (n.) See Simar.
Samaritan (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
Samaritan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
Samarium (n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.
Samaroid (a.) Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.
Samarra (n.) See Simar.
Samarskite (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.
Sambo (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Samboo (n.) Same as Sambur.
Sambucus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.
Sambuke (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.
Sambur (n.) An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).
Same (v. i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Same (v. i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
Same (v. i.) Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
Sameliness (n.) Sameness, 2.
Sameness (n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
Sameness (n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
Samette (n.) See Samite.
Samian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
Samian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samos.
Samiel (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.
Samiot (a. & n.) Samian.
Samite (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.
Samlet (n.) The parr.