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The act of washing with salt water. [R. & Obs..] Greenhill.

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

Same as Saliferous.

Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.

Salineness. Carpenter.

A salimeter.

Saline. [Obs.]

Salic. Shak. She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique. Tennyson.

A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.

The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).

To season with salt; to salt. [Obs.]

The secretion from the salivary glands.

Salivary.

Producing salivation.

Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.

To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.

The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.

Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.