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

ervices; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceæ), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.

A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Capable of being scaled.

See Escalade. Fairfax.

In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridæ, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.…

or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.

Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A scamp; a scapegrace. [Spelt also scallawag.] [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Hardened masses of feces.

An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. [Irish] [Written also shillaly, and shillely.]

Stalactic.

Like a stalactite; resembling a stalactite.

e or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

A stalactite. [Obs.] Woodward.

Of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.

Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.

A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.