salability, saleability (salabiliti)

salable + -ity (see- bility ).] Salablene . What can he do but spread himself into breadth and length, into superficiality and saleability? Carlyle, Misc., IV. 139. (Davies.) salable, saleable (sā'la-bl), a. [ Woeful is that judgment which comes from him who hath venalem animam, a saleable soul. Rev. T. Adams, Works, П. 549. Any saleable commodity... removed out of the course of trade. Locke . salablene , saleablene (sa'la-bl-nes), n. The character of being salable; salability. salably, saleably (sa'la-bli), adv . In a salable manner; so as to be salable. salacious (sā-lā'shus), a ., [ salax (-ac-), dis- posed to leap, lustful, salire , leap: see sail2 , salient .] Lustful; lecherous. One more salacious , rich, and old Outbids, and buys her pleasure with her gold. Dryden , tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. salaciously (sā-lā'shus-li), adv. In a salacious manner; lustfully; with eager animal appetite. salaciousne (sā-lā'shus-nes), n. The quality of being salacious; lust; lecherousne ; strong propensity to venery. salacity (sa-las'i-ti), n. [ F.salacité = It. sa lac ità, ne . saladı (sal'ad), n. [Formerly also sallad, sal let; Sp. Pg. salado = It. salato ), salted, pickled (cf. It. salato, salt meat), pp. of salare, salt, Beware of salad is , grene metis, & of frutes rawe, For they make many a man haue a feble mawe. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 124. They haue also a Sallet of hearbes and a Sawcer of Vin- eger set on the Table. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 206. I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled, or eat as salads with my bread. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iv. 2. 2. Herbs for use as salad: colloquially restricted in the United States to lettuce. Same as salangane . salagrama (s-la-gräʼmä), n. [Anglo-Ind. salgram; Hind. sālagrāma, sāligram, employed by the Brahmans in propitiatory rites. It a cephalopod, as an ammonite, a belemnite, etc. Such a stone, when found, is preserved as a precious talisman. It appears, however, that a great variety of petrifactions receive the general name salagrama. Belemnites and Orthoceratites mineralized by the same material as the ammonites (iron clay and pyrites). Their abundance in the beds of mountain torrents, especially the Gundak, had been long known, as they form an indispensable article in the sacra of the Hindu Thakoordwaree, under the name of Salagrama . Dr. Gerard , Asiat. Soc. of Calcutta, Oct., 1830. salal-berry (sal'al-ber"i), n. A berry-like fruit about the size of a common grape, of a dark col or and sweet flavor. It is the fruit of Gaultheria Shal lon, the salal, a small shrubby plant about 11⁄2 feet high, growing in Oregon and California.