salt-cellar 
Standing salt-cellar, the large salt-cellar which for- 
merly occupied an important place on the table. The 
principal one, usually placed in front of the master of the 
feast, was frequently a very decorative object. Compare 
trencher unit-cellar. Trencher salt-cellar, a small salt- 
cellar for actual use at the table, placed within reach of 
the guests, as distinguished from the standing salt-cMin; 
which was rather an object of decoration. 
salt-cote (siilt'kot), it. [Also salt-coat; < ME. 
salt cote, salts cote: see fait 1 and cote 1 .] A 
salt-pit. 
There be a great number of salt cntes about this well, 
wherein the salt water is sodden in leads, and brought to 
this perfection of pure white salt. 
Harrison, Descrip. of Eng., iii. IS. 
The Hay and riuers have much marchantable fish, and 
places nt for Salt-coat*, building of ships, making of Iron, 
cVc. Capt. jnhn Smith, Works, I. 12s. 
salt-duty (salt'du'ti), . A duty on salt; in 
London, a duty, the twentieth part, formerly 
payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought 
to tlie port of London. 
salted (sal'ted), a. [< salt 1 + -ed 1 .] Haying 
acquired immunity from disease by a previous 
attack. [Rare.] 
In addition, he must have horses which should be "salt- 
ed " : that is, must have had the epidemic known as horse- 
sickness which prevails on the north of the Vaal river, 
particularly on the banks of the Limpopo. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 618. 
saltee (sal'te), n. [< It. soldi, pi. of soldo, a small 
Italian coin: see sow.] A penny. [Slang.] 
It had rained kicks all day in lieu of salteee. 
C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, Iv. 
salter (sal'ter), n. [< ME. salter, saltare, < AS. 
sealtere, a salter ; basalt 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One who 
makes, sells, or deals in salt. 
Saltare, or wellare of salt. Salinator. 
Prompt. Pan.', p. 441. 
2. A drysalter. The incorporated salters, or 
drysalters. of London form one of the city liv- 
ery companies. 
A few yards off, on the other side of Cannon Street, in 
St. Swithin's Lane, is the spacious but not very interesting 
hall of the sailers. The Century, XXXVII. 10. 
3. One who salts meat or fish. The salter in a fish- 
ing-vessel receives the flsh from the splitter, strews salt 
on them, and stows them away in compact layers with 
the skin down. 
4. A trout about leaving salt water to ascend 
a stream. [New Eng.] 
salterello, . See saltarello. 
salteretto (sal-te-ret'o), n. [It.; el.saltarella.'] 
In initsic^ the rhythmic figure |TT Compare 
saltarello. J-WJ 
saltern (sal'tern), . [< ME. 'saltern (?), < AS. 
nealtern, < salt 1 + ern, a place for storing, cor- 
ner: see em 5 .] A salt-works; a building in 
which salt is made by boiling or evaporation ; 
more especially, a plot of retentive land, laid 
out in pools and walks, where the sea-water is 
admitted to be evaporated by the heat of the 
sun's rays. E. H. Knight. 
salt-foot (salt'fut), w. A large salt-cellar for- 
merly placed near the middle of a long table to 
mark the place of division between the superior 
and the inferior guests. See aborc tlit: suit, un- 
der sal ft-. 
salt-furnace (salt'fer'nas), . A simple form 
of furnace for heating the evaporating-pans 
and boilers in a salt-factory. 
salt-gage (salt'gaj), . Same as salhiometer. 
salt-garden (salt'gaV'dn), . In the manufac- 
ture of common salt from sea-water or water 
obtained from saline springs, a large shallow 
pond wherein the water is allowed to evaporate 
till the salt, mixed with impurities, separates 
out. Spans' Encyc. Mantif., I. 265. 
salt-glaze (salt'glaz), . A glaze produced 
upon ceramic ware by putting common salt in 
the kilns after they have been fired for from 
60 to 96 hours. The glaze is formed by the volatiliza- 
tion of the salt, its decomposition by the water in the 
gases of combustion, and the combination of the sodic 
hydrate thus set free with the free silica in and on the 
surface of the ware. The glaze is therefore a sodium 
silicate. 
salt-grass (salt'gras), M. A collective name of 
grasses growing in salt-meadows, consisting 
Iii i-^'ply of species of Spartina. Sporobvlus airoides, 
which affords considerable pasturage on arid plains in the 
western United States, is also so called, as is rHitichlis 
tnaritima, which inhabits both localities. 
salt-greent (salt'gren), a. Green like the sea. 
salt-group (salt'grop), n. In geol., a group or 
series of rocks containing salt in considerable 
quantity. Qnondaga salt-group, a series of rocks 
occupying a position nearly in the middle of the Upper 
Silurian, and especially well developed in central New 
Vork, where it is of great economical importance on ac- 
count of the salt which it affords : so named from the 
county of Onondaga, where for many years the manufac- 
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i HI r of salt lias been extensively carried on. Also called 
Salina group. 
salt-holder (salfhol'der), H. A salt-cellar. 
"Be propitious, Bacchus!" said Glaucus, inclining 
reverentially to a beautiful image of the god placed in 
the centre of the table, at the corners of which stood 
the Lares and the salt -holders. 
Bidder, Last Days of Pompeii, i. :i. 
salt-horse (salt'hors')) Salt beef. [Sailors' 
slang.] 
By way of change from that substantial fare called salt- 
horse and hard-tack. 
C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 123. 
Salticidae (sal-tis'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Sultieii.i 
+ -idle.] A family of vagabond dipneumonous 
spiders, typified by the genus Salticus, contain- 
ing active saltatorial species which spin no web, 
but prowl about to spring upon their prey. 
They are known &s jumping or leaping spiders. 
Salticus (sal'ti-kus), M. [NL., < LL. saltieux, 
dancing, < it. saltus, a leaping (saltare, dance), 
<. salirc, leap: see saltate.] A genus of spiders, 
typical of the family Saltieidse. 
saltie (sal'ti), n. The salt-water fluke or dab. 
Limanda platessoides Bastard saltie. Seebaxtard. 
saltier 1 , saltire (sal'ter), . [< OF. saultoir, 
F. sautoir, St. Andrew's cross, orig. a stirrup (the 
cross being appar. so named from the position of 
the side-pieces of a stirrup, formerly made in 
a triangle resembling the Gr. 
delta, A), < ML. sattatorium, a 
stirrup, < L. saltatoriits, belong- 
ing to dancing or leaping, suit- 
able for mounting a horse, < 
saltator, a leaper, < saltare, pp. 
naltatun, leap, dance: see sal- 
tate.] In her., an ordinary in the saltier 
form of a St. Andrew's cross, 
formed by two bends, dexter and sinister, cross- 
ing each other. Also called cross saltier, cross 
in nattier. 
Upon his surcoat valiant Nevil bore 
A silver saltire upon martial red. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, ii. 23. 
The Saracens, Curdmans, and Ishmaelites yield 
To the scallop, the saltier, and crossleted shield. 
Scott, The Tire-King. 
In saltier. Same as saltiertcise when applied to a num- 
ber of small charges. Per saltier, saltierwise. Quar- 
terly in saltier. Same as per saltier. Saltier arched, 
a bearing consisting of two curved bands turning their 
convex sides to each other, tangent or conjoined, so as 
to nearly resemble a saltier. Saltier cheeky, a saltier 
whose field is occupied with small checkers in three or 
four rows, the lines which form the checkers being par- 
allel to those bounding the saltier, and therefore oblique 
to the escutcheon. Saltier compone, a saltier whose 
field is occupied with squares alternating of two tinc- 
tures: these are set square with the saltier, and there- 
fore seem to be lozenges as regards the escutcheon. 
Saltier conjoined in base, a saltier cut short in some 
way, as couped, and having the feet or extremities of 
the two lower arms united by a band, usually of the same 
width and tincture as the arms of the saltier. Saltier 
COUped, a saltier the extremities of which do not reach 
the edges of the field. Saltier couped and crossed, a 
figure resembling a cross crosslet set saltierwise. Also 
called cross crosslet in saltier; sometimes also saltier sal- 
tierlet, apparently in imitation of cross crosslet, etc. Sal- 
tier crossed patt4, a saltier each of whose arms ends in 
a cross patte, or, more correctly, is decorated with three 
arms of a cross patte. Saltier fiinbriated, a saltier hav- 
ing along each of its arms a narrow line of a different tinc- 
ture, separating it from the field: this usually represents 
another saltier of the tincture of the fimbriation, the two 
having been combined on the occasion of some family alii, 
ance or the like. A notable instance is seen in the Brit- 
ish union jack. Saltier lozengy, a saltier the field of 
which is occupied with lozenges, or with squares set di- 
agonally to the saltier, and therefore square with the es- 
cutcheon. Saltier incline, a saltier couped and having 
each of the ends divided and bent backward in a curve. 
A Iso called cross moline in saltier. Saltier nowy, a bear- 
ing consisting of a circle in the fesse-point of the field, 
from which four arms, bendwise and bendwise sinister, 
are carried to the edges. Saltier UOWy lozengy a bear- 
ing consisting of a square set diagonally in the middle of 
the field, from each side of which one arm of a saltier ex- 
tends to the edge of the escutcheon, the angles of the 
square projecting between the arms. Saltier nowy 
quadrat, a bearing consisting of a square in the center 
of the field, from each angle of which one arm of a saltier 
extends to the limit of the escutcheon : each angle of the 
saltier is therefore filled up with a triangle. Saltier Of 
chains, in her., a bearing representing a ring in or near 
the fesse-point of the field, from which four chains extend 
to the edges of the field, forming a saltier. Saltier of 
five mascles, a bearing consisting of a square mascle 
having four lozenge-shaped mascles fretted or interlaced 
with it, one with each of its four sides. Saltier quar- 
terly pierced, a saltier having the center removed, as in a 
cross quarterly pierced : but, as the square so cut out is di- 
agonal on the field, this bearing is more often described as 
a saltieririerceii iiaeniw. Saltier quarterly quartered, 
a saltier divided by the vertical and horizontal lines which 
if carried out would quarter the whole field : each of the 
four arms is thus separated from the others, and is distin- 
guished by a different tincture or combination of tinc- 
tures-Saltier triparted, a bearing composed of three 
bendlets ami three oendlets sinister, usually fretted or 
interlaced where they cross one another. 
salt-marsh 
A blunder for satyr 1 . 
There isthreecarters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, 
three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of 
hair, they call themselves Saltiers, and they have a dance 
which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols. 
Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 334. 
saltierlet (sal'ter-let), H. [< saltier* + .\ e t.-\ A 
small saltier. See miltier couped and crossed, 
under saltier 1 . 
saltierra (sal-tyer'il), H. [Mex. Sp., < Sp. sal 
(< L. sal), salt,'+ tierru (< L. terra), land, soil.] 
A saline deposit left by the drying up of certain 
shallow inland lakes in Mexico, formerly much 
used in the patio process instead of salt ob- 
tained from the sea-coast by evaporation of the 
ocean-water. 
saltierwise, saltirewise (sal'ter-wlz), adv. In 
lier. : (a) Arranged in the form of a saltier, as 
small bearings of any kind of approximately 
circular form, not only roundels, bezants, etc., 
but mullets, escallops, martlets, etc. (6) Di- 
vided by two diagonal lines having the posi- 
tion of the arms of the saltier: said of the field 
or a bearing, (c) Lying in the direction of the 
two arms of the saltier : as, a sword and spear or 
two swords saltier Kise. See cut under angle 3 , 5. 
Cross saltierwise. See cross' . 
Saltigrada (sal-tig'ra-da), n.pl [NL.: seeml- 
tigrade.J Same as Saltigrada!. 
Saltigradae (sal-tig'ra-de), n. pi. [NL. : see 
saltigradc.] A group or suborder of spiders dis- 
tinguished by their activity or ability to leap. 
It includes species which have a high cephalothorax with 
almost vertical sides, a very broad back, short and thick 
extremities, and a peculiar position of the eyes, four in the 
first row and the remaining four in a second and a third 
row. The two generally admitted families are the Eresidtf 
and the Attidte. 
saltigrade (sal'ti-grad), a. and H. [< L. saltm, 
a leap (< satire, jump, spring), + gradi, walk, 
advance.] I. a. Moving by leaping; saltato- 
rial, as a spider; specifically, of or pertaining 
to the Saltigradse. 
II. M. A member of the Saltigradse. 
saltimbancot (sal-tim-bang'ko), w. [=F. sal- 
timbaiique = Sp. Pg. saltimbaneo, < It. sultim- 
banco, a mountebank, < saltare, leap, + in, on, + 
banco, bench : see salt 2 , saltation, in 1 , bank 1 . Of. 
mountebank.] A mountebank; a quack. 
Saltiubancoes, quacksalvers, and charlatans deceive 
them. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
salting (sal'ting), . [Verbal n. of salt 1 , .] 1. 
The act of sprinkling, seasoning, filling, or fur- 
nishing with salt; specifically, the celebration 
of the Eton montem. See montem. 
'Twas then commonly said that the college [at Eton] 
held some lands by the custome of salting, but, having 
never since examined it, I know not how to answer for it. 
J '. Byrmn, in Letters of Eminent Men, II. 167. 
2. A salt-marsh. 
salting-box (sal'ting-boks), n. See box' 2 . 
salting-house (sal'ting-hous), w. An establish- 
ment where fish, etc., are salted. 
salting-point (sal'ting-point), . In soap-mak- 
ing, the degree of concentration to which the 
soap is brought by evaporation before the sep- 
aration from the lye is effected by the addi- 
tion of salt or salted Ive. Watt, Soap-making, 
p. 224. 
saltire, . See saltier 1 . 
saltirewise, adr. See saltierwise. 
saltish (sal'tish), a. [< salt 1 + -isli 1 .] Some- 
what salt; tinctured or impregnated with salt. 
But how bitter, saltixh, and unsavoury soever the sea is, 
yet the fishes that swim in it exceedingly like it. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. 45. 
saltishly (sal'tish-li), adv. With a moderate 
degree of saltness. Imp. Diet. 
saltishness (sal'tish-nes), n. The property of 
being saltish. Imp. Diet. 
saltless (salt'les), a. [< salt 1 + -less.] Desti- 
tute of salt ; insipid. Imp. Diet. 
salt-lick (salt'lik), w. A place resorted to by 
animals for the purpose of satisfying the natu- 
ral craving for salt. The regions thus visited are 
those where saline springs rise to the surface, or have 
done so in former times. The miring of large animals, 
especially of the buffalo (Bison awericamis\ about these 
licks has caused one of the most remarkable of them to 
be called the "Big Bone Lick." It is in Boone county, 
Kentucky. 
No, he must trust to chance and time ; patient and wary, 
like a " painter " crouching for its spring, or a hunter 
waiting at a" salt-lick for deer. 
Whyte Melnlle, White Rose, II. I. 
saltly (salt'li), adv. [< salt 1 + -///-'.] In a salt 
manner; with the taste of salt. Imp. Diet. 
salt-marsh (salt 'marsh), . [< AS..sen7<-wer*r. < 
sealt. salt. + morse, marsh : se .tult 1 and marxli.~] 
Land under pasture-grasses or herbage-plants, 
subject to be overflowed by the sea. or by tl.'c 
