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yal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. Holyday.

r; smack; seasoning. Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us. Shak.

A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.

Sea-green in color. Shak.

Leaping; jumping; dancing.

See Saltarello.

A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.

To leap or dance. [R.]

A leaping or jumping. Continued his saltation without pause. Sir W. Scott.

A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises.

Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.

Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution (Biol.), a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See Saltation. -- Saltatory spasm (Med.), an affection in which pressure…

An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

A mixture of salt, coarse meal lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.

Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.

One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.

The European dab.