Salicineæ (salisinee)

pl. [NL. (L. (L. C. Richard, 1828), related to any other. It is characterized by diœcio us inflorescence with both sorts of flowers in catkins, a perianth or disk either cup-shaped or reduced to gland-like scales, two or more stamens to each flower, and a one-celled ovary becoming in fruit a two to four-valved capsule with numerous minute seeds which bear a long dense tuft of white hairs at one end. There are 178 (or, as some estimate them, 300) species, natives of temperate salesroom (sālz'röm), n . saleswoman (sālz ́wum"an), n .; pl. saleswomen (-wim"en). A woman who waits upon custom and cold regions, widely scattered throughout the world, ers in a shop or store, and exhibits wares to them for sale. salett, n. An obsolete form of sallet2 . sale-tongued† (sāl'tungd), a . Mercenary. So sale - tongu'd lawyers, wresting eloquence, Excuse rich wrong, and cast poore innocence. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas. ( Nares .) sale-warest (sāl'warz), n . pl . Merchandise. All our sale - wares which we had left we cast away. R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 415). salewet, v . and n . See salue . sale work (sal' werk), n . [ sale1 + work .] Work or things made for sale; hence, work carele ly done. I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's sale - work . Shak ., As you Like it, iii. 5. 43. Salian1 (sā'li-an), a.andn. [ Salii , a tribe of Franks, + -an .] I. a . Of or belonging to a tribe of Franks settled along the lower Rhine near the North Sea. See Franc on i an and Frank1 . II. n. A member of this tribe of Franks. Salian2 (sa'li-an), a . [L. Salii , a college of priests of Mars, lit. 'leapers,' salire , leap: see sail2 , salient .] Of or pertaining to the Salii or priests of Mars in ancient Rome. - Salian hymns, songs sung at an annual festival by the priests of Mars, in praise of that deity, of other gods, and of distinguished men. The songs were accompanied by warlike dances, the clashing of ancilia (shields of a peculiar form), etc. saliant (sā'li-ant), a . In her ., same as sa lient . saliauncet, saliancet, n. [Cf. salience .] A ault or sally. Now mote I weet, Sir Guyon, why with so fierce saliaunce And fell intent ye did at earst me meet. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 29. (and F.) Salic (sal'ik), a . [Also Salique ; = salique Sp.sálico Pg. It.salico, Based on or contained in the code of the Sali an Franks: specifically applied to one of the laws in that code which excluded women from inheriting certain lands, probably because certain military duties were connected with such inheritance. In the fourteenth century females were excluded from the throne of France by the application of this law to the succe ion to the crown, and it is in this sense that the phrase Salic law is commonly used. A French antiquarian (Claude Sei el) had derived the name of the Salic Law from the Latin word sal , com me pleine de sel, c'est à dire pleine de sapience, and Germany; that of the Indian market is from Persia and Tibet, or local. Salep contains 48 per cent. of mucilage than what some one proposed, either seriously or in sport, that the law was called Salique because the words si rarer in the tropics, and very few in the southern hemisphere. They are trees or shrubs, bearing alternate entire or toothed leaves, free stipules, and catkins produced before or with the leaves, often clothed with long silky hairs. The order is composed of but two genera, Salix (the type) and Populus. Also Salicaceæ. saltwort, salicyl (sal'i-sil), n. [ In relieving pain and le ening fever in acute rheumatism the salicyl treatment is undoubtedly the most effective we know of. Lancet , No. 3431, p. 1086.