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A salt of salicylic acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts i…

A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.

A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.

Same as Salicylal.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance called salicylous acid, and now salicylal. [Obs.]

That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

In a salient manner.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.…

Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.

To combine or impregnate with a salt.

A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.

The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution. [Written also salometer.]

The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.

A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.