salutatory 
which tin- exercises of a college commence- 
ment begin ; looselv. any speech of salutation. 
[U. 8.] 
salute 1 (sa-lut'), v. ; pret. and pp. saluted, ppr. 
.-minting. "[< L. sal u tare. (> It. salutare = Sp. 
Pr. saludar = Pg. simdiir = F. saltier, > ME. 
saluen : see salne), wish health to, greet, salute, 
<L. salus (salut-), a safe and sound condition, 
health, welfare, prosperity, safety, a wish for 
health or safety, a greeting, salute, salutation, 
< salviis, safe, well : see safe. The E. noun is 
partly from the verb, though in L. the noun pre- 
cedes the verb. Cf. salutf-.] I. trims. 1. To 
wish health to; greet with expressions of re- 
spect, good will, affection, etc. 
Thy master there beynge, Salute with all reuerence. 
Babees Book(E. V.. T. S.), p. 339. 
All that are witii me salute thee. Tit. iii. 15. 
2. To greet with a kiss, a bow, a courtesy, the 
uncovering of the head, a clasp or a wave of 
the hand, or the like ; especially, in older writ- 
ers, to kiss. 
They him saluted, standing far afore. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 49. 
If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than 
others? Mat. v. 47. 
You have the prettiest tip of a finger ; I must take the 
freedom to salute it. Addison, Drummer. 
He seemed to want no introduction, but was going to 
salute my daughters as one certain of a kind reception, 
but they had early learned the lesson of looking presump- 
tion out of countenance. Goldsmith, Vicar, v. 
3. To hail or greet with welcome, honor, hom- 
age, etc.; welcome; hail. 
Even till that utmost corner of the west 
Salute thee for her king. Shot., K. John, ii. 1. 30. 
They salute the Sunne in his morning-approch, with 
certaine verses and adoration : which they also performe 
to the Moone. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 536. 
They heare it as their ord'nary surname, to be saluted 
the Fathers of their countrey. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
4. To honor formally or with ceremonious 
recognition, as by the firing of cannon, pre- 
senting arms, dipping the colors, etc. : as, to 
salute a general or an admiral; to salute the 
flag. 
About five of the clock, the rear-admiral and the Jewel 
had fetched up the two ships, and by their saluting each 
other we perceived they were friends. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 15. 
The present rule for ships of the United States, meeting 
the flagships of war of other nations at sea, or in foreign 
parts, is for the United States vessel to salute the foreign 
ship first. Preble, Hist. Flag, p. 39. 
St. To touch ; affect ; influence ; excite. 
Would I had no being 
If this salute my blood a jot. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 103. 
II. intrans. 1. To perform a salutation ; ex- 
change greetings. 
I was then present, saw them salute on horseback. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., L 1. 8. 
2. To perform a military salute. 
Major. Oh, could you but see me salute ! you have never 
a spontoon in the house? 
Sir Joe. No ; but we could get you a shovepike. 
Foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. 
salute 1 (sa-lut'), a- [< salute^, .] 1. An act of 
expressing kind wishes or respect; a saluta- 
tion ; a greeting. 
O, what avails me now that honour high 
To have conceived of God, or that salute 
Hail, highly favour'd, among women blest ! 
Milton, P. R., ii. 67. 
We passed near enough, however, to give them the usual 
salute, Salam Alicnm. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 18. 
2. A kiss. 
There cold salutes, but here a lover's kiss. 
Roscmnmon, On Translated Verse. 
3. In the army and navy, a compliment paid 
when a distinguished personage presents him- 
self, when troops or squadrons meet, when offi- 
cers are buried, or to celebrate an event or show 
respect to a flag, and on many other ceremonial 
occasions. There are many modes of performing a sa- 
lute, such as firing sannon or small-arms, dipping colors, 
presenting arms, manning the yards, cheering, etc. The 
salute representing the exchange of courtesies between a 
man-of-war, when entering a harbor for the first time 
within a year, and the authorities on shore, consists in fir- 
ing a certain number of guns, depending upon the rank of 
the officers saluted. 
Have you manned the quay to give me the honour of a 
mlute upon taking the command of my ship? 
Scott, Pirate, xxxiv. 
The etiquette of the sea requires that a ship of war en- 
tering a harbor, or passing by a fort or castle, should pay 
the first salute, except when the sovereign or his ambassa- 
dor is on board, in which case the greeting ought to be 
made first on the shore. 
!l, Introd. to Inter. Law (4to ed.), 85. 
4. The position of the sword, rifle, hand, etc. , in 
saluting; the attitude of a person saluting: as, 
to stand at the salute while the general is pass- 
ing; specifically, in fencing, a formal greeting 
of swordsmen when about to engage Salutes 
With cannon. National salute (United States), 1 gun for 
every State in the Union; international salute, 21 guns; 
the President of the United States, on arrival and depart- 
ure, 21 guns ; a sovereign, a chief magistrate, or a member 
of a royal family, of any foreign country, each 21 guns; 
the Vice-President, or the president of the Senate, of the 
United States, 19 guns ; a general-in-chief, the general of 
the army, the admiral of the navy, a member of the cabinet, 
the chief justice of the United States, the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives of the United States, governors 
of States and Territories within their respective juris- 
dictions, ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary, 
each 17 guns ; a viceroy, a governor-general, governors of 
provinces, of foreign governments, each 17 guns. = Syn. 1. 
Greeting, etc. See salutation. 
salute'^t, U. [ME. salut (pi. salu:), < OP. saint, 
.-taints, salute, a coin so called from the saluta- 
tion of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary being repre- 
sented on the obverse; lit. 'salutation, "salute': 
A gold coin current in the French 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Salute of Henry VI. British Museum. (Size of the original.) 
dominions of Henry V. and Henry VI. of Eng- 
land, weighing about 54 grains. 
For the value and denombrement [number] of iiij. m'. 
saluz of yerly rent, he [Fastolf] was commaunded by the 
Kinges lettres to deliver upp the sayd batonyes and lord- 
shipps to the Kyngs commissioners. Paston Letters, I. 373. 
saluter (sa-lu'ter), n. One who salutes. 
salutiferous (sal-u-tif'e-rus), a. [= Sp. salu- 
tifero = Pg. It. salutifero, < L. salutifer, health- 
bringing, < solus (salut-), health, 4- ferre = E. 
ftenc 1 : see -ferous.'} Health-bearing; remedi- 
al ; medicinal : as, the salutiferous qualities of 
herbs. [Rare.] 
The prodigious crops of hellebore . . . impregnated the 
air of the country with such sober and salutiferous steams 
as very much comforted the heads and refreshed the senses 
of all that breathed in It. Steele, Tatler, No. 125. 
Much clattering and jangling . . . there was among jars, 
and bottles, and vials, ere the Doctor produced the salulif- 
erom potion which he recommended so strongly. 
Scott, Abbot, xxvi. 
salutiferously (sal-u-tif'e-rus-li), adv. In a sal- 
utiferous or beneficial manner. [Rare.] 
The Emperour of this invincible army, who governeth 
all things salutiferously. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 609. 
Solvability (sal-va-bil'i-ti), i. [< solvable + 
-ity (see -biUty).~\ ' The state of being salvable ; 
the possibility of being saved. 
He would but have taught less prominently that hateful 
doctrine of the solvability of the heathen Gentiles. 
F. W. Robertson, Sermons, 2d ser., p. 302. 
salvable (sal'va-bl), a. [< L. salvare, save (see 
savel, salvation), + 
-able.] Capable of be- 
ing saved; fit for sal- 
vation. 
Our wild fancies about 
God's decrees have in event 
reprobated more than those 
decrees, and have bid fair to 
the damning of many whom 
those left salvable. 
Decay of Christian Piety. 
salvableness (sal'va- 
bl-nes), n. The state 
or condition of being 
salvable. Bailey, 1727. 
salvably (sal'va-bli), 
adv. In a salvable man- 
ner; so as to be salva- 
ble. 
Salvadora ' (sal-va-do'- 
rii), H. [NL. (Linnteus, 
1753), named after J. 
fialrador, a Spanish 
botanist.] A genus of 
gamopetalous shrubs 
or trees, type of the or- 
der Saleadoratese. it is 
characterized by a bell- 
shaped calyx and corolla, four stamens fixed at the base 
or middle of the corolla, a one-celled ovary with one ovule, 
very short style, and broad peltate stigma, the ovary be- 
coming in fruit a globose drupe with papery endocarp and 
Branch with Flowers of Salva. 
Jora Persica. a, a female flow- 
er ; t>, the fruit. 
salvation 
single erect seed. There are 2 or 3 species, natives <>\ 
India, western Asia, and northern and tropical Africa. 
They bear opposite entire thickish, commonly pallid 
leaves, and small flowers on the branches of an axillary 
or terminal panicle. S. Persica, distributed from India to 
Africa, has been regarded by some as the mustard of Luke 
xiii. 19. (Seemwstarrf, 1.) The same in India furnishes ki- 
fcuel-oil, and from the use of its twigs is sometimes called 
toothbrush-tree. 
Salvadora 2 (sal-va-dd'rji), n. [NL. (Baird and 
fiirard, 1853).] Iri'lierjief., a genus of Colubrimi', 
having the posterior maxillary teeth not ab- 
ruptly longer than the preceding ones, a trans- 
versely expanded rostral plate with free lateral 
borders, several preocularplates, smooth scales, 
and double subcaudal scutes. &'. araltamia is 
found in the United States. 
Salvadoraceae (saFva-do-ra'se-e), n. nl. [NL. 
(Lindley, 1836), < Sah'adorai + -acea.\ A small 
order of shrubs and trees pf the cohort Gentia- 
nales, closely allied to the olive family, and dis- 
tinguished from it by the uniform presence of 
four stamens and four petals, and often of ru- 
dimentary stipules. It includes about 9 species, be- 
longing to 3 genera, of which Salvadora is the type. They 
are natives of Asia, especially the western part, and of 
Africa and the Mascarene Islands. They bear opposite 
entire leaves, and a trichotomous and panicled inflores- 
cence, often of dense sessile clusters. 
salvage 1 (sal'vaj), . [< OF. salvage, saving 
(used in the phrase droit de salvage) (cf. F. 
sauvetage, salvage, < sauveter, make a salvage, < 
sauvete, safety ),< salver, sauver, save: see saw 1 .] 
1. The act of saving a ship or goods from ex- 
traordinary danger, as from the sea, fire, or pi- 
rates. 2. In commercial and maritime law: (a) 
An allowance or compensation to which those 
are entitled by whose voluntary exertions, 
when they were under no legal obligation to 
render assistance, a ship or goods have been 
saved from the dangers of the sea, fire, pirates, 
or enemies. 
The claim for compensation is far more reasonable when 
the crew of one vessel have saved another and its goods 
from pirates, lawful enemies, or perils of the seas. This 
is called salvage, and answers to the claim for the ransom 
of persons which the laws of various nations have allowed. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 144. 
(6) The property saved from danger or destruc- 
tion by the extraordinary and voluntary exer- 
tions of the salvors. 3. Naut., same as sel- 
vagee. Salvage corps, a body of uniformed men at- 
tached to the fire department in some cities, notably in Lon- 
don, for the salvage of property from fire, and the care and 
safe-keeping of that which is salved. These salvage corps 
correspond in some respects to the fire-patrol of New York 
and other cities of the United States. 
salvage 2 !, a. and n. An obsolete form of savage. 
salvatella (sal-va-tel'a), .; pi. sah-atell& (). 
[It., dim.,< LL. salvatus, pp. of salvare, save: see 
mire 1 .] In anat., the vena salvatella, or vein on 
the back of the little finger: so called because 
it used to be opened with supposed efficacy in 
melancholia and hypochondria. 
salvation (sal-va'shon), n. [< ME. salvaeiouu, 
salvation, sauvacion, savacion, < OF. (and F.) 
salvation = Pr. Sp. salvation = Pg. salvayeto = 
It. salvazione, < LL. salvatio(n-), deliverance, 
salvation, a saving, < salvare, pp. salvatus, save : 
see mire 1 .] 1. Preservation from destruction, 
danger, or calamity; deliverance. 
He shude drenche 
Lord and lady, grome and wenche, 
Of :il the Troyan nacioun, 
Withouten any savacioun. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 208. 
2. In tlieol., deliverance from the power and 
penalty of sin. 
And anon the Child spak to hire and comforted hire, 
and seyde, Modir, ne dismay the noughte; for God hathe 
hidd in the his prevytees, for the salvacioun of the World. 
Mandei-aie, Travels, p. 133. 
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain 
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thes. v. 9. 
I have chose 
This perfect man, by merit call'd my Son, 
To earn salvation for the sons of men. 
Milton, P. R., i. 1CJ7. 
According to the Scriptures, salvation is to be rescued 
from moral evil, from error and sin, from the diseases of 
the mind, and to be restored to inward truth, piety, and 
virtue. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 277. 
3. Source, cause, or means of preservation 
from some danger or evil. 
The Lord is my light and my salvation. Ps. xxvii. 1. 
Their brother's friend, declared by Hans to have been 
the salvation of him, a fellow like nobody else, and, in fine, 
a brick. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xvi. 
Salvation Army, an organization formed upon a quasi- 
military pattern, for the revival of religion among the 
masses. It was founded in England by the Methodist 
evangelist William Booth about 1865, under the name of 
the Cfirijttian Mission; the present name and organization 
were adopted about 1878. It has extended to the conti- 
nent of Europe, to India, Australia, and other British pos- 
