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Found: 12,563 words.
A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.
Salmon
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A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
A salmon of small size; a samlet.
Salmonoid
2 defs
Any fish of the family Salmonidae.
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A halogen.
A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.
See Salimeter.
Salimetry.
An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
Saloon
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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;...
An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London.
Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.
A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.
of Salpa
of Salpa
Alt. of Salpid
Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.
A salpa.
Inflammation of the salpinx.
The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.
See Salsify.
Salt; salted; saline.
A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.
See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.
Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid.
See Sal soda, under Sal.
A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.
Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
salt
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A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.
Sea-green in color.
Saltant
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In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
See Saltarello.
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
To leap or dance.
Saltation
3 defs
A leaping or jumping.
A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
Saltatorial
3 defs
Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.
Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing.
An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.
A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.
Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
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One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.
A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
See Saltire.
A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.