salute (salut)

[ 0, what avails me now that honour high To have conceived of God, or that salute - Hail, highly favour'd, among women blest! Milton , P. R., ii. 67. We pa ed near enough, however, to give them the usual salute, Salam Alicum. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 18. 2. A ki . There cold salutes , but here a lover's ki . Roscommon, On Translated Verse. 3. In the army and navy, a compliment paid when a distinguished personage presents himself, when troops or squadrons meet, when officers are buried, or to celebrate an event or show respect to a flag, and on many other ceremonial occasions. There are many modes of performing a salute, such as firing cannon or small-arms, dipping colors, salute representing exchange courtesies a presenting arms, manning the yards, cheering, etewerthe man-of-war, when entering a harbor for the first time within a year, and the authorities on shore, consists in firing a certain number of guns, depending upon the rank of the officers saluted. Have you manned the quay to give me the honour of a salute upon taking the command of my ship? Scott , Pirate, xxxiv. The etiquette of the sea requires that a ship of war entering a harbor, or pa ing by a fort or castle, should pay the first salute , except when the sovereign or his amba ador is on board, in which case the greeting ought to be made first on the shore. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law (4to ed.), § 85. -ity (see- bility ).] The state of being salvable; the po ibility of being saved. He would but have taught le prominently that hateful doctrine of the salvability of the heathen Gentiles. F. W. Robertson , Sermons, 2d ser., p. 302. salvable (sal'va-bl), a . [L. salvare , save (see savel , save, salvation ), + -able.] Capable of being saved; fit for salvation. Our wild fancies about God's decrees have in event reprobated more than those decrees, and have bid fair to the damning of many whom those left salvable . Decay of Christian Piety .