aalivant 
the flow of saliva: exciting or producing sali- 
vation. 
II. H. A substance which lias tlie property 
of salivating. 
saliva-pump (sa-li'va-pump), . In dentistry, 
a device for carrying off the accumulating sa- 
liva from the mouth 
of a patient. A hook- 
ed tube is inserted in the 
mouth, and is connected 
at the other end with a 
valyed chamber through 
which ia passed a small 
stream of water. The 
vacuum thus produced 
draws out from the 
mouth any excess of sa- 
liva. Also called wiKi'o- 
fjector. 
salivary (sal'i-vfi- 
ri), . [= P. safi- 
rilirt' = Pg. sain-Ill- Salivary Glands. 
= It. Salivare, < L. .". sul.lingual; *, submaxlllarv : 
,. . , . their duels opening at d, beside the 
.til Ill-units, pertain- tongue on the floor of the mouth; c, 
intr rn saliva nr parotid, its duct (Stenson's), *, opening 
ing TO Sama 01 Sp |x , s i te the second upper molar tootff 
slime, slimy, clam- 
my, < saliva, spittle : see saliva."] Of or pertain- 
ing to saliva ; secreting or conveying saliva : as, 
salivary glands ; salivary duets orcanals. In man 
the salivary glands are three pairs the parotid (see cut 
under parotid), subnmxillary, and sublingual. Such glands 
are of enormous size in various animals, as the beaver and 
sewellel. In the latter they form a great glandular collar 
Salivary Gland of Woodpecker. s ff 
Head of Woodpecker (Colaftes auratus), with the integument 
removed, showing the large salivary gland Sf. (About two thirds 
natural size.) 
like a goiter. They are also very large in some birds, as 
swifts and woodpeckers. Buccal salivary papilla, the 
prominent opening in the cheek of the duct of the parotid 
gland. Salivary calculus, a concretion found in the 
duct of Wharton, and consisting chiefly of carbonates of 
lime and magnesia, and phosphate of lime. These calculi 
are also sometimes found in the ducts of the parotid and 
submaxillary glands. Salivary corpuscles, pale spheri- 
cal nucleated bodies found in the saliva, containing nu- 
merous fine granules in incessant agitation. Salivary 
diastase. Same as ptyalin. Salivary fistula, an ab- 
normal opening on the side of a salivary duct. Sali- 
vary tubes of Pflueger, the intralobular ducts of the 
salivary glands. 
salivate (sal'i- vat), c. t. ; pret. and pp. sali- 
vated, ppr. salivating. [< L. salivatus, pp. of 
salivare (> It. salivare = Sp. Pg. Pr. salivar = 
F. saliver), spit out, also salivate, < L. saliva, 
spittle : see saliva.'] To purge by the salivary 
glands ; produce an unusual secretion and 
discharge of saliva in, usually by the action of 
mercury; produce ptyalism in. 
salivation (sal-i-va'shon), . [= F. salivation 
= Sp. salivation = Pg. salivaq&o = It. sulini- 
zione, < LL. saliva tio(n-), < L. salivare, pp. sali- 
vatus, spit : see salivate.] An abnormally abun- 
dant flow of saliva; the act or process of sali- 
vating, or producing an excessive secretion of 
saliva, generally by means of mercury; ptya- 
lism. 
salivin (sal'i-vin), . [< L. saliva, saliva, + 
-in 2 .] Same as ptyalin. 
salivoust (sa-li'vus), a. [= Sp. Pg. salivvso, < 
L. salivosus, full of spittle, < saliva, spittle : see 
saliva.] Of or pertaining to saliva ; partaking 
of the nature of saliva. 
There also happeneth an elongation of the uvula, through 
the abundance of salivous humour flowing upon it. 
Wiseman, Surgery, iv. 7. 
Salix (sa'liks), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), < 
L. salix, a willow: see xalloic 1 .] A genus of 
apetalous trees and shrubs, the willows, type 
of the order Salicinex, and characterized by a 
disk or perianth reduced to one or two distinct 
glands, and a one-celled ovary with a short two- 
cleft style, and two placenta? each bearing com- 
monly from four to eight ovules, arranged in two 
ranks. Unlike those of Popidus, the other genus of the 
order, the leaves are commonly long and narrow, the cat- 
kins are dense, erect, and abflrst covered by a single bud- 
scale, the flowers sessile, stigma short, stamens usually 
but two, the bracts entire, and the seeds few in each two- 
valvcd capsule. There are over 160 species enumerated, 
often of very difficult limitation from the number of con- 
necting forms and of hybrids. They are natives of all 
northern and cold regions, rare in the tropics, and very 
few in the southern hemisphere. One species only is 
known in Smith Africa, and one in South America, native in 
Chili ; none occurs in Australasia or Oceanica. About 20 
are native to the northeastern United States ; and they are 
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still more numerous northward, 10 species being reported 
from Point Barrow in Alaska alone. They are trees or 
shrubs, generally with long lithe branches and elongated 
entire or minutely toothed leaves, often with conspicuous 
stipules. A few alpine species are prostrate, and form 
matted turfs or send up small herb-like branches from un- 
derground stems. S. arctica, a wide spread species of the 
far north, extends to latitude 81 44' N"., in the form, at 
sea-level, of dwarf shrubs a foot high, but with a trunk an 
inch thick. The catkins are conspicuous ; in temperate 
climates they are usually put forth before the leaves, but 
in colder regions they commonly appear nearly at the same 
time. Most species grow along streams, and many arc 
widely planted to consolidate banks, and thus have become 
extensively naturalized. Many are found in a fossil state. 
See willow, after, and sattoiri ; also cuts tinder ament, 
inflorescence, lanceolate, and retuse. 
sall't, A Middle English form of soul. 
sail'-', r. An obsolete or dialectal form of shall. 
salladt, salladet, w. Obsolete forms of salad 1 , 
ftattet?. 
sallee-man (sal'e-man), . 1. A Moorish pi- 
rate: so called from the port of Sallee, on the 
coast of Morocco. 
Fleets of her Portuguese men-of-war rode down over the 
long swell to give battle to saucy sattee-men. 
J. W. Palmer, I'p and Down the Irrawaddl, p. 29. 
2. In zool., a physophorous oceanic hydrozoan 
of the family VeleUMs, as Velella vulgaris. It is 
about 2 inches long, of a transparent blue color, and rides 
on the surface of the sea with its vertical crest acting as a 
sail. Also sallyman. 
sallenders (sal'en-derz), . Same as sellaiiders. 
sallert, Same as seller 3 . 
sailet 1 1 (sal'et), n. An obsolete form of salad 1 . 
[In the first quotation there is a play upon this 
word and sallet 2 , a helmet.] 
Wherefore . . . have I climbed into this garden to see 
if I can eat grass or pick a sallet, . . . which is not amiss 
to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. And I think 
this word sallet was born to do me good ; for many a time, 
but lor a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown- 
bill ; and many a time, when I have been dry, and bravely 
marching, it hath served me instead of a quart- pot to drink 
in ; and now the word sallet must serve me to feed on. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 10. 9. 
On Christ-masse Euen they eate a Sallet made of diners 
Hearbs, and seeth all kindes of Pulse which they feed 
vpon. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 618. 
Wilt eate any of a young spring sallet > 
Marston, The Fawne, 11. 1. 
t 2 (sal'et), w. [Early mod. E. also sallett, 
salet, also salad, sallad, salladc, salade, < ME. 
xtilette (confused in spelling with salad 1 , also 
spelled sallet), prop, salade, < OF. salade, sal- 
lade, a helmet, head-piece, = Sp. Pg. celada, a 
helmet (ef. Sp. celar, engrave, celaditra, en- 
amel, inlaying), < It. celata, a helmet, < L. c- 
lata, sc. cassis, an engraved or ornamented 
helmet, fern. pp. of ceelare, engrave: see ceil 
andcefare.] 1. A kind - 
of helmet, first intro- 
duced at the begin- 
ning of the fifteenth 
century, lighter than 
the helm, and having 
an intermediary form 
between this and the 
chapel-de-fer. its dis- 
tinguishing mark is the 
fixed projection behind, 
which replaces the articulated couvre-nuque of other 
forms of head-piece. The sallet is always extremely sim- 
ple in form, having rounded surfaces everywhere, and es- 
pecially well adapted to cause blows or thrusts to glance 
Sallet, with vizor; Spanish. 
i5th century. 
Sallet. without vizor, of form worn by horsemen in the first half of tht 
1 5th century. 
from the surface. Most sallets are without movable 
vizors ; but where there are vizors the same peculiarity of 
small rounded surfaces is preserved. 
Salad, speare, gard-brace, ne page. 
The Isle of Ladies, 1. 155S. 
The seid Lord sent to the seid mansion a riotous pe- 
ple, to the nombre of a thowsand persones, with blanket 
bendes of a sute as risers ageyn your pees, arrayd in maner 
of werre, with curesse, brigaunders, jakks, salettes, gleyfes, 
howes, arows, pavyse, gonnes, pannys with tier and teynes 
brennyng therein, Paston Letters, I. 106. 
2. As much as a sallet will hold. [Bare.] 
No more calling of lanthorn and candle-light ; 
That maidenheads be valued at just nothing; 
And sacke be sold by the sallet. 
Hcyirood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, 1. 19). 
salletingt (sal'et-ing), n. [< salleft + -</!. J 
Same as salad 1 . 
salliancet, . An obsolete form of salience. 
salligott (sal'i-got), H. See sal!</ol. 
sally 
sallow 1 (sal'6), n. [Also sally, dial. (Sc.)saucli, 
*/ui</h; early mod. E. also saloice, rarely sale ; < 
ME. saleve, salice, salahi'. xalivlie, also sail/ (pi. 
mleiris, xalircx. salyltes), < AS. sealli (in inflection 
also seal-) = OHG. salaha, MHG. sallie, G. </// 
(in sahliceide, the round-leafed willow) = Icel. 
nelja = Sw. siilg = Dan. scljv = L. salix, a willow 
(> It. salcio, salce, salice = Sp. salce = Pg. sauze 
(the F. saule is < OHG.) = Gael, saileach = Ir. 
sail, saileach = W. ln-lyg, pi.), = Gr. f/Um?, a wil- 
low: prob. named from its growing near wa- 
ter; cf. Skt. salila, saras, sari, water, sarasya, 
a lotus, sarit, a river, <-\/sar, flow.] 1. A wil- 
low, especially Salix caprea, the great sallow or 
goat- or hedge-willow. It is a tall shrub or bushy 
tree, found through the northern Old World. It puts forth 
its showy yellow catkins very early in spring, and in Eng- 
land its branches serve in church use for palms. (See 
palmV, 3.) It furnishes an osier for basket- and hoop- 
making; its wood is made into implements, and largely 
into gunpowder-charcoal; its bark is used for tanning, 
especially for tanning glove-leather. The gray sallow is 
only a variety. In Australia the name is applied to some 
acacias. 
jje schulen take to sou in the flrste day . . . braunchls 
of a tree of thicke boowis, and saleicift of the rennynge 
streein. Wydif, Lev. xxiii. 40 (ed. Purvey). 
In this Region of Canchleta, the gossampine trees growe 
of them selues commonly in many places, as doo with vs 
elmes, wyllowes, and salowes. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 95). 
The fore-pillar [of the Dalway harp] appears to be sal- 
low, the harmonic curve of yew. 
O'C-urnj, Anc. Irish, II. xxxlli. 
2. An osier ; a willow wand. 
And softe a saly twygge aboute him plie. 
Palladitts, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 104. 
Who so that buyldeth his nous al of salms . . . 
Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 665. 
sallow 2 (sal'6), a. [< ME. salow, salwhe, < AS. 
salo, salu, sealo, sallow (salo-nel), yellow-beaked, 
salu-pdd, with pale garment, sealo-brtin, sallow- 
brown), = MD. sahnee, D. zaluw, saluice, tawny, 
sallow, = OHG. salo, dusky (> F. sale = It. sa- 
laro, dirty), MHG. sale, sal, G. dial, sal, salil = 
Icel. solr, yellowish; root uncertain.] Having 
a yellowish color; of a brownish-yellow and un- 
healthy-looking color : said of the skin or com- 
plexion. 
What a deal of brine 
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline ! 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 3. 70. 
Then the judge's face had lost the ruddy English hue, 
that showed its warmth through all the duskiness of the 
colonel's weather-beaten cheek, and had taken a sallow 
shade, the established complexion of his countrymen. 
Uawthorne, Seven Gables, vlii. 
sallow 2 (sal'6), r. t. [< sallow 2 , a.] To tinge 
with a sallow or yellowish color. 
July breathes hot> sallows the crispy flelds. 
Lowell, Under the Willows. 
sallow 3 (sal'6), . [Abbr. of salloic-motJi.] An 
English collectors' name for certain noctuid 
moths ; a sallow-moth. Thus, Cirreedia xeram- 
pelina is the center-barred sallow Bordered 
sallow. See flKoAw. Orange sallow. See orangci. 
sallow-kitten (sal'6-kit'n), n. A kind of puss- 
moth, Dicranura furcula : so called by British 
collectors. 
sallow-moth (sal'6-m6th), w. A British moth 
of the genus Xanthia, as X. eerago, X. sulphu- 
rago, etc., of a pale-yellowish color; a sallow. 
sallowness (sal o-nes), n. [< sallow 2 + -ness.] 
The quality of being sallow ; paleness, tinged 
with brownish yellow : as, sallmrness of com- 
plexion. 
With the sallowness from the face flies the bitterness 
from the heart. IF. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 319. 
sallow-thorn (sal'6-thorn). . See Hippopltaf. 
sallowy (sal'o-i), a. [< sallow + -y 1 .] Abound- 
ing in sallows or willows. 
The brook, 
Vocal, with here and there a silence, ran 
By tallowy rims. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
sally 1 (sal'i), H. ; pi. sallies (-iz). Same as snl- 
/". 
sally 2 (sal'i), .; pi. sallies (-iz). [Early mod. 
E. also sallie; < OF. (and F.) saillie (= Er. sal- 
Jiia = Sp. salidn = PR. sahida), a sally, erup- 
tion, leap, < saillir. rush forth, leap: see sally 2 , 
.] If. A leap or spring; a darting; a dance. 
2. A sudden rush, dash, or springing forth; 
specifically, a sudden and determined rush or 
eruption of troops from a besieged place to at- 
tack the besiegers; a sortie: as, the garrison 
made a sal/i/. 
I come from haunts of coot and hern, 
I make a sudden sally 
And sparkle uut among the fern, 
To bicker down a valley. 
Tennyson, The Brook. 
