sal1glycIc

[English sal i (cyl); glyc(ol), and -ic.] Derived from, or containing salicylic acid and glycosine. saliglycic-acid, s. [SALICYLURIC-ACID.] săl-I-got, s. [Fr.] Bot .: A plant, Trapa natans , the Water Caltrops. sa-lim-e-ter, s . [Latin sal =salt, and English meter.] An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution. They are imperfect instruments, each requiring to be graduated for the particular salt which it is required to test. sa-li-na, s . [Sp., from Lat. sal =salt.] 1. A salt-marsh or salt-pond inclosed from the 2. A place where salt is made from salt water; sea. salt-works. *sal-I-nā-tion, s. [Eng. sal in (e); -ation.] The act of washing with, or soaking in salt liquor. "The same pickle they use in salina tion."-Green hill: Art of Embalming , p. 59. sa-line', a. & 8. [French sal in, fem. saline, from Lat. (only found in the neut. salinum, a salt-cellar, and the fem. pl. salince =salt-pits), from salsalt; Sp. & Ital. salino =saline; Sp.. Port., & Ital. salina , Fr. saline =a salt-pit.] [SALT, 8.] A. As adjective : 1. Consisting of salt; constituting salt; having salt as a constituent. "That the sun continually raised dry saline exhalations from the earth." -Goldsmith : Hist . of the Earth , ch. xv. 2. Partaking of the nature or qualities of salt; salty. "The land being generally of a nitrous and saline nature."-Anson: Voyages, ch. v. B. As subst.: A salt-spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth; specifically applied to salt lowlands in the Argentine Republic, where the vegetation consists only of a few saline plants. saline-plants, s. pl. Bot .: Plants growing in salt places, and having a saline taste. saline-purgatives, s. pl. Pharm.: Purgatives resembling hydragogues in their effects, but the action is much slighter. They are best combined with other aperients, and include phosphate of soda, tartrate of potash, sulphate of soda, sulphate of magnesia, citrate of potash, and cream of tartar, in small quantities. saline-waters, s. pl. Hygiene: Waters with salts in solution. Those which have sulphate of soda or sulphate of magnesia as their chief ingredients are at Epsom, Cheltenham, Leaming ton, Püllna, Seidlitz, Carls and Marienbad; those with sulphate or car bonate of lime, or both, are the thermal waters of Bath and Buxton; those with carbonate or bicarbonate of soda are Ems, Teplitz, .