salicylic 
which may be derived from the glucoside sali- 
cin found in the bark and leaves of willows. 
Salicylic acid, an acid (C 6 H 4 .OH.C0 2 H) obtained from 
oil of wintergreen, from salicin, and from other sources. 
It crystallizes in tufts of Blender prisms, which are odor- 
less, with an astringent taste and a slightly Irritating ef- 
fect on the fauces. It is prepared commercially by the 
action of carbonic acid on sodium phenol (sodium carbo- 
iatr). Salicylic acid has come into very general use as an 
antiseptic, and, being devoid of active poisonous proper- 
ties, is employed for preserving foods, etc., from decay. 
It is also used in acute articular rheumatism and in 
myalgia. Salicylic aldehyde, the aldehyde of salicylic 
acid, CgHi.OH.C'OH, which occurs in the volatile oil of 
Spirxa. It is an oily liquid with aromatic odor, soluble 
in water, and readily oxidized to salicylic acid. Sali- 
cylic or salicylated cotton, absorbent cotton impreg- 
nated with salicylic acid and used as an antiseptic dress- 
ing. Salicylic ether, au ether formed by the combina- 
tion of salicylic acid with an alcohol radical. Oil of 
wintergreen is salicylic methyl ether. 
salicylism (sal'i-sil-izm), n. Toxic effects pro- 
duced by salicylic acid. 
salience (sa'li-ens), n. [< ttalien(t) + -ce. Cf. 
the solder torm'salianee.'] 1. The fact or con- 
dition of being salient ; the state of projecting 
or being projected ; projection ; protrusion. 
The thickness and salience of the external frontal table 
remains apparent. Sir W. Hamilton. 
2. A projection ; any part or feature of au ob- 
ject or whole which protrudes or juts out be- 
yond its general surface, as a molding consid- 
ered with reference to a wall which it decorates. 
Saliencet are indicated conventionally (in medieval il- 
lumination) by paling the colour, while depressions are ex- 
pressed by deepening it. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 299. 
saliency (sa'li-en-si), n. Same as salience. 
salient (sa'li-erit), a. and n. [An altered form, 
to suit the L. spelling, of earlier saliant (in 
her.), "gaillant, < F. saillant, < L. salien(t-)s, ppr. 
lire = Sp. 
allir = V. 
,leap(>E. 
iialter?, etc.). From the same L. verb are ult. 
of salire, leap, spring forth (> It. salire = Sp. 
salir = Pg. saltir = Pr. salir, salkir, sullir = F. 
naillir, > E. obs. sail?), = Gr. a^aBai, leap (> E. 
halter?, etc.). From the same L. verb are ult. 
E. sail?, assail (sail 3 ), sally?, assault, sault 1 , sal- 
tation, saltier, exult, insult, result, desultory, re- 
silient, salmon, etc.] I. a. 1. Leaping; bound- 
ing; jumping; moving by leaps; specifically, in 
herpet., saltatorial; habitually leaping or jump- 
ing, as a frog or toad; of or pertaining to the 
Salientia. 
The legs of both sides moving together, as in frogs and 
taliant animals, is properly called leaping. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 6. 
2. In her., leaping or springing: said of a beast 
of prey which is represented 
bendwise on the escutcheon, the 
hind feet together at the sinis- 
ter base, and the fore paws raised 
and usually on a level, though 
sometimes separate, nearly as 
when rampant. Also saliant, 
assailant, effare. 3. Shooting 
up or out; springing up. 
He had in himself a salient living spring of generous 
and manly action. Burke, To a Noble Lord. 
Who best can send on high 
The salient spout, far streaming to the sky? 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 162. 
4. Projecting outward; convex: as, a salient 
angle. 5. Standing out; conspicuous; promi- 
nent; striking. 
There are people who seem to have no notion of sketch- 
ing a character, or observing and describing salient points, 
either in persons or things. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xi. 
The antiphonary furnished the anthems or verses for 
the beginning of the communion, the offertory, and other 
salient passages of the office. 
A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 20. 
Mr. John Westbrook, . . . known, from his swarthy 
looks and salient features, as "Jew Westbrook." 
E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 142. 
Salient angle, (a) In .fort. See bastion, (b) In gemn., 
an angle bending toward the interior of a closed figure, 
A Lion Salient. 
I fired my revolver through the angle of the case, so as 
to make a hole in the tin. Having first made this lodge- 
ment in the salient, the rest of the work was easy. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 162. 
Some of them, in the impetus of the assault, went even 
inside one of the salient* of the work. 
N. A. Bee., CXLIII. 46. 
Salientia (sa-li-en'shi-a), n. pi. [NL., < L. sa- 
lien(t-)g, ppr. of salire, leap, spring : see salient.'] 
1. In herpet., an old name, originating with 
Laurenti, 1768, of salient or saltatorial amphibi- 
ans, as frogs and toads: synonymous with An- 
tfr<M, and with liatracliia in a restricted sense. 
2f. In Illiger's classification (1811), the third 
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order of mammals, containing the kangaroos 
and potoroos that is, those marsupials which 
he did not class with the Quuilniininin in his 
second order Pollicnta. 
saliently (sa'li-ent-li), ttilr. in a salient man- 
ner, in any sense of salient. 
saliere (sa-liar'), . [F. : see sellers.] A salt- 
cellar. 
saliferous (sa-lif'e-rus), a. [< L. sal, salt. + 
ferre = E. tear 1 ."] In f/eol., noting a forma- 
tion containing a considerable amount of rock- 
salt, or yielding briue in economically valu- 
able quantity. Saliferous beds are found in 
almost all the divisions of the geological series, 
from the lowest to the highest Saliferous sys- 
tem, in ;/."/.. a name sometimes given to the Triassic se- 
ries, because some of the most important salt-deposits of 
Europe occupy this geological position. 
salifiable (sal'i-fi-a-bl), . [= F. salifiable = 
Sp. salificflble = It. salificabile; as salify + 
-able.'] Capable of being salified, or of com- 
bining with an acid to form a salt. 
saliflcation (sal*i-fi-ka'shon), H. [= F. salifi- 
cation; as salify + -tition (see-./icoWow)-] The 
act of salifying, or the state of being salified. 
salify (sal'i-fi), c. t. ; pret. and pp. salified, ppr. 
xalijying. [= F. salifier = It. salificare, < L. 
sal, salt, + -ficare, < facere, make (see -fy)."] 
To form into a salt, as by combination with au 
acid. 
saligot(sal'i-got), . [Also salligot; <OF.sali- 
gots, "saligots, water caltrops, water nuts" 
(Cotgrave).J 1. The water-chestnut, Trapana- 
tans. 2. A ragout of tripe. Davies. 
He himself made the wedding with fine sheeps-heads, 
brave haslets with mustard, gallant mlliyou with garlic 
(tribars aux ails). Urguhart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 31. 
Salii (sa'li-i), n. pi. [L. Salii: see Salum*.] 
The priests of Mars, in ancient Rome : accord- 
ing to tradition their college was established 
by Numa Pompilius. See Salian^. 
saiimeter (sa-lim'e-ter), . [< L. sal, salt, + 
Gr. ftcrpov, measure.] Same as salinometer, 1. 
salimetry (sa-lim'e-tri), n. [< L. sal, salt, + 
Gr. -fifrpia, < /icrpov, measure.] Same as sali- 
itometry. 
salina (sa-li'na), H. [Sp. salinn : see saline, .] 
A saline; salt-works ; any place where salt is 
deposited, gathered, or manufactured. 
In a Urge salina, northward of the Rio Negro, the salt 
at the bottom, during the whole year, is between two and 
three feet in thickness. 
Darwin, Oeol. Observations, ii. SOB. 
Salina group. Same as Onomlaya salt-group. 
See salt-group. 
salination (sal-i-na'shou). . [< saline + 
-atio.~\ The act of washing with or soaking in 
salt liquor. 
The Egyptians might have been accustomed to wash 
the body with the same pickle they used in salinativn. 
Greenhill, Art of Embalming, p. 59. 
saline (sa-lii)' or sa'lin), a. [< OF. (and F.) 
salin = Sp. Pg. It. salino, < L. "salinus (found 
only in neut. salinuin, salt-cellar, and pi. fern. 
xalinse, salt-pits: see saline, n.), < sal, salt: see 
salt 1 and sal 1 .'] 1. Consisting of salt or con- 
stituting salt : as, saline particles ; saline sub- 
stances. 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteris- 
tic of salt; salty: as, a saline taste. 
With bacon, mass saline, where never lean 
Beneath the brown and bristly rind was seen. 
Craobe, Works, IV. 154. 
A delicious mline scent of sea-weed. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 630. 
Saline bath, a bath used as a substitute for sea-water, 
containing 36 ounces of salt to 60 gallons of water. Sa- 
line infiltration, the deposit of various salts in a tissue, 
as in calcareous degeneration. Saline mixture, lemon- 
juice and potassium bicarbonate. Saline purgative, a 
salt with purgative properties, such as magnesium or so- 
dium sulphate, sodiopotassium tartrate, magnesium car- 
bonate, etc. Saline waters, waters impregnated with 
salts, especially spring waters which contain considerable 
quantities of salts of the alkalis and alkaline earths, used 
as medicines. 
saline (sa-liu' or sa'lin), it. [< F. saline = Sp. 
Pg. It. salina, < L. xtiliHte, salt-works, salt-pits, 
pi. of salina, fern, of adj. (cf. ML. salina, L. and 
ML. salinuni, a salt-cellar) 'salinus, of salt: see 
saline, a.~] A salt-spring, or a place where salt 
water is collected in the earth ; a salt-marsh 
or -pit. 
The most part of all the salt they haue in Venice com- 
meth from these Salines. Hakluyfs Voyages, II. 108. 
The waters of the bay were already marbling over the 
iiliifi:* and half across the island. 
Harper's Hay., LXXVI. 739. 
salineness (sa-lin'nes). . [< saline + -.] 
Saline character or condition. ///. Diet. 
salivant 
saliniferous (sal-i-nif'e-rus), . [Irreg. < L. 
"salinus, of salt (see saline), + ferre = E. 6eff/-i.] 
Producing salt. 
saliniform (sa-lin'i-f6rm), a. [Irreg. < L. *sa- 
linnn,of suit (see saline), +frnm, form.] Hav- 
ing the form of salt. 
salinity (sa-lin'i-ti), . [= F. salinite; as sn- 
line + -ity.~\ Saline or salty character or qual- 
ity; degree of saltiness; salineness. 
It Is shown by a glance at the charts that there are arena 
in the ocean of great salinUij and ureas of great dilution 
Xatvre, XXX. 314. 
salinometer (sal-i-nom'e-te*), ii. [< L. *,/,- 
nus, of salt (see saline), + Gr. /tirpov, measure.] 
1 . A form of hydrometer for measur- 
ing the amount of salt present in any 
given solution. The numbers on the stem 
(see figure) show the percentages of strength 
for the depths to which the instrument sinks 
in a solution. Also saiimeter, salometer. 
2. A similar apparatus used for in- 
dicating the density of brine in the 
boilers of marine steam-engines, and 
thus showiiig when they should be 
cleansed by blowing off the deposit 
left by the salt water, which tends to 
injure the boilers as well as to dimin- 
ish their evaporating power. Also 
called salt-f/age. 
salinometer-pot (sal-i-npm'e-ter- 
pot), n. A vessel in which water 
from a boiler may be drawn to test 
it for brine by the salinometer. 
salinometry (sal-i-nom'e-tri), n. [< 
L. *nalinus, of salt, + Gr. -uerpia,< 
ucrpot; measure.] The use of the 
salinometer. Also salimetry, salom- 
etry. 
salinoterreue (sa-li'no-te-ren'), . 
[X L. 'salinus of salt (see saline). Salinometer 
r terrenus, of earth: see terrene.] 
Pertaining to or composed of salt and earth. 
salinoust (sa-H'nus), a. [< L. "salinus, of salt: 
see saline.'] Same as saline. 
When wood and many other bodies do petrine ... we 
do not usually ascribe their induration to cold, but rather 
untosalinous spirits, concretive juices, and causes circum- 
jacent, which do assimilate all bodies not indisposed for 
their impresalons. Sir T. Broume, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. 
Saliquet (sal'ik 01' sa-lek'), a. Same as Salic. 
Salisburia (sal-is-bu'ri-a), n. [NL. (Sir James 
Smith, 1798), named after K. A. Salisbury, an 
English botanist (born 1762).] A former ge- 
nus of coniferous trees, now known by the ear- 
lier name Ginkgo (Kaempfer, 1712). The change 
of name was proposed on the ground that (finkgo (also 
spelled Oingko) was a barbarism, a reason which IB not ac- 
cepted by the modern rules of nomenclature. See maiden- 
hair-tree, and cut under gingko. 
Salisbury boot. See boot' 2 . 
saliteH (sa'lit), c. t. [< L. salitus, pp. of salire, 
salt, < sal, salt: see sal 1 , salt 1 .] To salt; im- 
pregnate or season with salt. Imp. Diet. 
salite 2 (sa'lit), H. [< Sola (see def.) + -ifel.] 
A lamellar variety of pyroxene or augite, of a 
grayish-green color, from Sala, Sweden, and 
elsewhere. See pyroxene. Also spelled sahlite. 
salitral (sal'i-tral), (. [Sp., < salitre = It. sal- 
nitro, saltpeter, < L. sal, salt, + tiitrnm, niter: 
see n'<e>'.] A place where saltpeter occurs or 
is collected. 
We passed also a muddy swamp of considerable extent, 
which in summer dries, and becomes incrusted with vari- 
ous salts, and hence is called a salitral. 
Daruin, Voyage of Beagle, I. 90. 
saliva (sa-li'va), . [In ME. ttaltr, < OF. (and 
F.) salive = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. naliva ; < L. salirti. 
spittle, saliva, slime. Cf. Gr. oMuov, spittle, 
Russ. slina, Gael, seile, spittle ; perhaps akin to 
slime.'] Spittle; the mixed secretion of the 
salivary glands and of the mucous membrane 
of the mouth, a colorless ropy liquid which 
normally has an acid reaction. Its physiological 
use is to keep moist the tongue, mouth, and fauces, thus 
aiding the sense of taste, and to assist mastication and 
deglutition. Specifically, saliva is the secretion of the 
salivary glands, which in man and many other animals 
contains a digestive ferment, ptyalin. See ptyalin, ami 
cuts under parotid and salivary. 
saliva-ejector (sa-U'vii-e-jek'tor), ii. A saliva- 
pump. 
saliyal (sa-li'val), a. [= Sp. Pg. salival = It. 
salt rale; as na1ica + -?.] Same as salivary. 
II". < '. Jtiissrll, Jack's Courtship, xxxix. [Rare.] 
salivan (sa-li'van), <i. [< L. .talirn. spittle, + 
-rt.] Sanif as '.tdlirary. [Rare.] 
salivant (sal'i-vant), a. and . [< L. .///- 
ran(t-), ppr. of mil/rare, spit out, salivate, < 
salira, spittle: see xalira.] I. . Promoting 
