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A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.

A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

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

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.

A salver, platter, or tray. [Obs.]

To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.

A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidæ. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.…

A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper.

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.

with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.