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so cataract bird. -- Rock wren (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico.

A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Cæsar.

septic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white crystalline substance, NaNO3, having a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste. It is obtained by leaching the soil of the rainless…

A dyewood yielded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.]

ish of California (Scorpænichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.