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A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.

One of the Saltigradæ a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.

A mountebank; a quack. [Obs.] [Written also santibanco.] Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans. Sir T. browne.

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.

In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

Somewhat salt. -- Salt"ish*ly, adv. -- Salt"ish*ness, n.

Destitute of salt; insipid.

With taste of salt; in a salt manner.

A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

gunpowder, but is employed in the production of nitric acid. Called also cubic niter. -- Saltpeter acid (Chem.), nitric acid; -- sometimes so called because made from saltpeter.

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [Obs.]

hich grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.

Somewhat salt; saltish.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

In the form of basalt; columnar.

Formed like basalt; basaltiform.