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Lit., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths.

To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.

To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.

A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. [Written also salaam.]

By way of salutation.

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.

The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.

soldier's honor was composed Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake. Herbert. Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand. Addison.

breeches; chiefly used in the plural. "A pair of slops." Sir P. Sidney. There's a French salutation to your French slop. Shak.

ntance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. -- Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance. -- Speaking tub…

Salutation to a newcomer. "Welcome ever smiles." Shak.