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- English Word Saltless Definition Destitute of salt; insipid.
- English Word Saltly Definition With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
- English Word Saltmouth Definition A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
- English Word Saltness Definition The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.
- English Word Saltpeter Definition Alt. of Saltpetre
- English Word Saltpetre Definition Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.
- English Word Saltpetrous Definition Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
- English Word Saltwort Definition A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.
- English Word Salty Definition Somewhat salt; saltish.
- English Word Salubrious Definition Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
- English Word Salubrity Definition The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate.
- English Word Salue Definition To salute.
- English Word Salutary Definition Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
- English Word Salutary Definition Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
- English Word Salutation Definition The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.
- English Word Salutatorian Definition The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.
- English Word Salutatorily Definition By way of salutation.
- English Word Salutatory Definition Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.
- English Word Salutatory Definition A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
- English Word Salutatory Definition The salutatory oration.