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Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

What followers, what retinue canst thou gain Milton. To have at one's retinue, to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

and receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

nvocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. Locke.

um, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

r a bottom. -- To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]

Employed in sacrifice. [R.] Johnson.

The trade or employment of a saddler.

a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia. -- Sa…

rden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. -- Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. -- Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] -- Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] -…

s districts of Chili and Peru. It is deliquescent and cannot be used in 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.

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.