Salad

sal′ad, n. a preparation of raw herbs (lettuce, endive, chicory, celery, mustard and cre , water-cre , onions, radishes, tomatoes, chervil, .) cut up and seasoned with salt, vinegar, .: a dish of some kind of meat, chopped, seasoned, and mixed with a salad.— ns. Salad-bur′net , the common burnet, used as a salad; Sal′ading , herbs for salads: the making of salads; Sal′ad-oil , olive-oil, used in dre ing salads; Sal′ad-plate , a small plate for salad; Sal′ad-rock′et , the garden rocket; Sal′ad-spoon , a large and long-handled spoon for stirring and mixing salads, made of wood or other material not affected by vinegar.— Salad days , days of youthful inexperience. [Fr. salade —Old It. salata — salare, to salt—L. sal, salt.]