Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAL'I-FY-ING, ppr.

Forming into a salt by combination with a base.

SAL'I-GOT, n. [Fr.]

A plant, the water thistle.

SAL-IN-A'TION, n. [L. sal, salt; salinator, a salt maker; Fr. salin, salt, brinish.]

The act of washing with salt water. – Greenhill.

SA-LINE', or SA-LIN'OUS, a. [Fr. salin, from L. sal, salt.]

1. Consisting of salt, or constituting salt; as, saline particles; saline substances.
2. Partaking of the qualities of salt; as, a saline taste.

SA-LINE, n. [Sp. and It. salina; Fr. saline.]

A salt spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a name given to the salt springs in the United States.

SAL-IN-IF'ER-OUS, a. [L. sal, salinum, and fero, to produce.]

Producing salt.

SA-LIN'I-FORM, a. [L. sal, salinum, and form.]

Having the form of salt.

SA-LI-NO-TER'RENE, a. [L. sal, salinum, and terrenus, from terra, earth.]

Denoting a compound of salt and earth.

SAL'ITE, v.t. [L. salio, from sal, salt.]

To salt; to impregnate or season with salt. [Little used.]

SA-LI'VA, n. [L. saliva; Ir. seile; W. haliw, as if connected with hâl, salt. The Irish has silim, to drop or distill, and sileadh, saliva.]

The fluid which is secreted by the salivary glands, and which serves to moisten the mouth and tongue. It moistens our food also, and by being mixed with it in mastication, favors deglutition. When discharged from the mouth, it is called spittle.

SA-LI'VAL, or SAL'I-VA-RY, a. [from saliva.]

Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as, salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals. – Encyc. Arbuthnot.

SAL'I-VANT, a.

Exciting salivation.

SAL'I-VANT, n.

That which produces salivation.

SAL'I-VATE, v.t. [from saliva; Fr. saliver.]

To produce an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in a person, usually by mercury; to produce ptyalism in a person.

SAL'I-VA-TED, pp.

Having an increased secretion of saliva from medicine.

SAL'I-VA-TING, ppr.

Producing increased secretion of saliva.

SAL-I-VA'TION, n.

The act or process of ptyalism, or of producing an increased secretion of saliva.

SA-LI'VOUS, a.

Pertaining to saliva; partaking of the nature of saliva. – Wiseman.

SAL'LET, n. [Fr. salade.]

A head-piece or helmet. – Chaucer.

SAL'LET, or SAL'LET-ING, n. [corrupted from salad. Not in use.]

SAL'LI-ANCE, n. [from sally.]

An issuing forth. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

SAL'LI-ED, pp.

Rushed out; issued suddenly.

SAL'LOW, a. [Sax. salowig, sealwe, from salh, L. salix; the tree, supra.]

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with a dark yellow; as, a sallow skin.

SAL'LOW, n. [Sax. salh, salig; Ir. sail; Fr. saule; It. salcio; Sp. salce; L. salix; W. helig. Qu. from its color, resembling brine.]

A tree of the willow kind, or genus Salix.

SAL'LOW-NESS, n.

A yellowish color; paleness, tinged with a dark yellow; as, sallowness of complexion.