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By way of salutation.

Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.

To adress, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail. I salute you with this kingly title. Shak.

One who salutes.

Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. [R.] Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous. Cudworth.

Salutarily. [R.]

The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness. [R.] In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization. A. V. G. Allen.

Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. Dr. H. More. -- Sal"va*ble*ness, n. -- Sal"va*bly, adv.

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. Salvage of life from a british ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods. Encyc. Brit.

d liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10.

An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.

A place where things are preserved; a repository. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. [Obs.] By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them. Spenser.

One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.

Tending to save or secure safety. [Obs.]

An exception; a reservation; an excuse. They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eilon Basilike.

One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so. Wheaton.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.