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  • English Word Saligot Definition The water chestnut (Trapa natans).
  • English Word Salimeter Definition An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.
  • English Word Salimetry Definition The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.
  • English Word Salina Definition A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.
  • English Word Salina Definition Salt works.
  • English Word Salina period Definition The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
  • English Word Salination Definition The act of washing with salt water.
  • English Word Saline Definition Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
  • English Word Saline Definition Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
  • English Word Saline Definition A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
  • English Word Saline Definition A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
  • English Word Saline Definition A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
  • English Word Salineness Definition The quality or state of being salt; saltness.
  • English Word Saliniferous Definition Same as Saliferous.
  • English Word Saliniform Definition Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.
  • English Word Salinity Definition Salineness.
  • English Word Salinometer Definition A salimeter.
  • English Word Salinous Definition Saline.
  • English Word Salique Definition Salic.
  • English Word Saliretin Definition A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.
  • English Word Salisburia Definition The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).
  • English Word Salite Definition To season with salt; to salt.
  • English Word Salite Definition A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
  • English Word Saliva Definition The secretion from the salivary glands.
  • English Word Salival Definition Salivary.
  • English Word Salivant Definition Producing salivation.
  • English Word Salivant Definition That which produces salivation.
  • English Word Salivary Definition Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
  • English Word Salivate Definition To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
  • English Word Salivate Definition To produce saliva, esp. in excess.