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Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.

Saline [Obs.]

See 1st Sallow. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Salable, Salably, etc.

See Salep.

Roughness or ruggedness. [Obs.] Feltham.

Rough; rugged. [Obs.]

The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water. U. S. Disp.

Aërated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is lagerly used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparatio…

One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. Shak.

ing a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic. -- n.

Same as Salient.

Salience; onslaught. [Obs.] "So fierce saliaunce." Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called. [Also salique.] Salic law. (a) A code of laws formed by the Salian Franks in the fifth century. By one provision of this code women were excluded from the inheritance of landed property. (b) Specifically, in modern times, a law supposed to be a speci…

Belonging or relating to the willow.

A glucoside found in the leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.salicyl alcohol glucoside, salicyl alcohol b-D- glucopyranoside, saligenin b-D-glucopyranoside, C13H18O7. It is used in biochemistry as a standard substrate for evaluating the potency o…

The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

6H4.CHO, found in the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiræa), and also obtained by oxidation of saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salycylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, or spiroylous, acid.