Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SA'LI-ENT
SA'LI-ENT, a.2 [L. saliens, from salio, to leap or shoot out.]
- Leaping; moving by leaps; as frogs. – Brown.
- Beating; throbbing; as the heart. – Blackmore.
- Shooting out or up; springing; darting; as, a salient sprout. – Pope.
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