Sal"a*ry (?), n.; pl. Salaries (#). [F. salaire, L. salarium,
originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt,
which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal
salt. See Salt.] The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to
be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as
by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
This is hire and salary, not revenge.
Shak.
Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a
day or week, is usually called wages.
Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
Sal"a*ry v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salaried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying
(?).] To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to
salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Sale (?), n. See 1st Sallow. [Obs.] Spenser.
Sale, n. [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See Sell, v. t.] 1. The act
of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the
ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable
consideration, or for a price in money.