SALTIRE, SALTIER, sal't[=e]r, _n._ (_her._) an ordinary in the form of a St
Andrew's Cross.--_adj._ SAL'TIERWISE. [O. Fr. _saultoir_, _sautoir_--Low L.
_saltatorium_, a stirrup--L. _salt[=a]re_, to leap.]
SALTPETRE, sawlt-p[=e]'t[.e]r, _n._ the commercial name for nitre.--_adj._
SALTP[=E]'TROUS. [O. Fr. _salpestre_--Low L. _salpetra_--L. _sal_, salt,
_petra_, a rock.]
SALTUS, sal'tus, _n._ a break of continuity in time: a leap from premises
to conclusion. [L., a leap.]
SALUBRIOUS, sa-l[=u]'bri-us, _adj._ healthful: wholesome.--_adv._
SAL[=U]'BRIOUSLY.--_ns._ SAL[=U]'BRIOUSNESS, SAL[=U]'BRITY, [L.
_salubris_--_salus_, _salutis_, health.]
SALUE, sal-[=u]', _v.t._ (_Spens._) to salute.
SALUTARY, sal'[=u]-tar-i, _adj._ belonging to health: promoting health or
safety: wholesome: beneficial.--_n._ SAL[=U]DADOR' (_obs._), a quack who
cures by incantations.--_adv._ SAL'[=U]TARILY, in a salutary manner:
favourably to health.--_n._ SAL'[=U]TARINESS.--_adj._ SAL[=U]TIF'EROUS,
health-bearing.--_adv._ SAL[=U]TIF'EROUSLY. [L. _salutaris_--_salus_,
health.]
SALUTE, sal-[=u]t', _v.t._ to address with kind wishes: to greet with a
kiss, a bow, &c.: to honour formally by a discharge of cannon, striking
colours, &c.--_n._ act of saluting: the position of the hand, sword, &c. in
saluting: greeting: a kiss: a complimentary discharge of cannon, dipping
colours, presenting arms, &c., in honour of any one.--_ns._
SAL[=U]T[=A]'TION, act of saluting: that which is said in saluting, any
customary or ceremonious form of address at meeting or at parting, or of
ceremonial on religious or state occasions, including both forms of speech
and gestures: (_obs._) quickening, excitement: the ANGELIC SALUTATION (see
AVE); SAL[=U]TAT[=O]'RIAN, in American colleges, the member of a graduating
class who pronounces the salutatory oration.--_adv._
SAL[=U]'TATORILY.--_adj._ SAL[=U]'TATORY, pertaining to salutation.--_n._ a
sacristy in the early church in which the clergy received the greetings of
the people: an oration in Latin delivered by the student who ranks
second.--_n._ SAL[=U]'TER. [L. _salut[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_--_salus_,
_salutis_.]
SALVAGE, sal'v[=a]j, _adj._ (_Spens._). Same as SAVAGE.
SALVAGE, sal'v[=a]j, _n._ compensation made by the owner of a ship or cargo
in respect of services rendered by persons, other than the ship's company,
in preserving the ship or cargo from shipwreck, fire, or capture: the goods
and materials so saved.--_n._ SALVABIL'ITY, the possibility or condition of
being saved.--_adj._ SAL'VABLE.--_n._ SAL'VABLENESS.--_adv._ SAL'VABLY.
[Fr.,--L. _salv[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_, to save.]
SALVATION, sal-v[=a]'shun, _n._ act of saving: means of preservation from
any serious evil: (_theol._) the saving of man from the power and penalty
of sin, the conferring of eternal happiness: (_B._) deliverance from
enemies.--_v.t._ to heal, to cure: to remedy: to redeem: to gloss
over.--_ns._ SALV[=A]'TIONISM; SALV[=A]'TIONIST.--SALVATION ARMY, an
organisation for the revival of evangelical religion amongst the masses,
founded by William Booth about 1865, reorganised on the model of a military
force in 1878; SALVATION SALLY, a girl belonging to the Salvation Army.
SALVATORY, sal'va-t[=o]-ri, _n._ (_obs._) a repository: a safe.
SALVE, säv, _n._ (_B._) an ointment: anything to cure sores.--_v.t._ to
heal, help.--_ns._ SALV'ER, a quacksalver, a pretender; SALV'ING, healing,
restoration. [A.S. _sealf_; Ger. _salbe_, Dut. _zalf_.]
SALVE, sal'v[=e], _v.t._ (_Spens._) to salute.--SALVE REGINA (_R.C._), an
antiphonal hymn to the Blessed Virgin said after Lauds and Compline, from
Trinity to Advent--from its opening words. [L. _salve_, God save you, hail!
imper. of _salv[=e]re_, to be well.]
SALVELINUS, sal-ve-l[=i]'nus, _n._ a genus of _Salmonidæ_, the chars.
[Prob. Latinised from Ger. _salbling_, a small salmon.]
SALVER, sal'v[.e]r, _n._ a plate on which anything is presented.--_adj._
SAL'VER-SHAPED, in the form of a salver or tray. [Sp. _salva_, a salver,
_salvar_, to save--Low L. _salv[=a]re_, to save.]
SALVIA, sal'vi-a, _n._ a large genus of gamopetalous Labiate plants,
including the sage.
SALVINIA, sal-vin'i-a, _n._ a genus of heterosporous ferns--formerly called
_Rhizocarpeæ_ or _Pepperworts_.
SALVO, sal'v[=o], _n._ an exception: a reservation. [L., in phrase, _salvo
jure_, one's right being safe.]
SALVO, sal'v[=o], _n._ a military or naval salute with guns: a simultaneous
discharge of artillery: the combined cheers of a multitude:--_pl._ SALVOS
(sal'v[=o]z). [It. _salva_, a salute--L. _salve_, hail!]
SAL-VOLATILE, sal'-vo-lat'i-le. See SAL.
SALVOR, sal'vor, _n._ one who saves a cargo from wreck, fire, &c. [See
SALVAGE.]
SAM, sam, _adv._ (_Spens._) together.--_v.t._ to collect, to curdle milk.
[A.S. _samnian_--_samen_, together.]
SAMARA, s[=a]-mar'a, or sam'-, _n._ a dry indehiscent, usually one-sided
fruit, with a wing, as in the ash, elm, and maple--the last a double
samara.--_adjs._ SAM'ARIFORM; SAM'AROID. [L.]
SAMARE, sa-mär', _n._ an old form of women's long-skirted jacket.
SAMARITAN, sa-mar'i-tan, _adj._ pertaining to _Samaria_ in Palestine.--_n._
an inhabitant of Samaria, esp. one of the despised mixed population planted
therein after the deportation of the Israelites: the language of Samaria,
an archaic Hebrew, or rather Hebrew Aramaic, dialect: a charitable
person--from Luke, x. 30-37.--_n._ SAMAR'ITANISM, charity,
benevolence.--SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH, a recension of the Hebrew Pentateuch,
in use amongst the Samaritans, and accepted by them as alone canonical.