SALAMANDERS, street acrobats, and jugglers who eat fire.
SALOOP, SALEP, or SALOP, a greasy looking beverage, formerly sold on
stalls at early morning, prepared from a powder made of the root of
the _Orchis mascula_, or Red-handed Orchis. Within a few years coffee
stands have superseded SALOOP stalls, but Charles Lamb, in one of his
papers, has left some account of this drinkable, which he says was of
all preparations the most grateful to the stomachs of young chimney
sweeps.
SALT, “its rather too SALT,” said of an extravagant hotel bill.
SALT BOX, the condemned cell in Newgate.