2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster,
mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar,
mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba),
sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.
Sal"ade (?), n. A helmet. See Sallet.
Sal"ad*ing (?), n. Vegetables for salad.
Sal`æ*ra"tus (?), n. See Saleratus.
Sal"a*gane (?), n. [From the Chinese name.] (Zoöl.) The esculent
swallow. See under Esculent.
Sal"al-ber`ry (?), n. [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Bot.) The
edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from
California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape
and of a dark purple color.
||Sa*lam (s*läm"), n. [Ar. salm peace, safety.] A salutation or
||compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance,
||performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the
||forehead. [Written also salaam.]
Sal"a*man`der (?), n. [F. salamandre, L. salamandra, Gr. &?;; cf. Per.
samander, samandel.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela,
belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied
genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their
habits.
The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a
long tail, but are destitute of scales. They are true Amphibia, related
to the frogs. Formerly, it was a superstition that the salamander could
live in fire without harm, and even extinguish it by the natural
coldness of its body.
I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this
two and thirty years.
Shak.
Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire,
we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth
immediately.
Sir T. Browne.
2. (Zoöl.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United
States.
3. A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated,
and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.