Dictionary
Found: 12,563 words.
Saltigrade
2 defs
Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
A mountebank; a quack.
Salting
3 defs
A salt marsh.
A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.
Somewhat salt.
The European dab.
Destitute of salt; insipid.
With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.
Alt. of Saltpetre
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 nitr...
Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.
Somewhat salt; saltish.
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate...
To salute.
Salutary
2 defs
Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
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 don...
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 wh...
By way of salutation.
Salutatory
3 defs
A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
Salute
7 defs
A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
of Salute
One who salutes.
Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air.
Salutarily.
of Salute
The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
Salvage
4 defs
Savage.
Salvation
3 defs
Saving power; that which saves.
An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
A place where things are preserved; a repository.
Salve
7 defs
A soothing remedy or antidote.
of Salve
Salver
3 defs
A salvor.
Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.
Tending to save or secure safety.
of Salve
Salvo
3 defs
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
of Salvo
Together.
A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
See Simar.