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from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmo…

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! Shak.…

The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

A stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. Bacon.

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.

Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]