salaam, sal am (sal am′)

[ He [the King]... present eth himselfe to the people to receiue their Salames or good morrow. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 546. grim durwan salutes you. A trace of pity in the silent salaam with which the J. W. Palmer , The Old and the New, p. 328. Salaam convulsion, a bilateral clonic spasm of muscles supplied by the spinal acce ory nerve, confined almost wholly to children between the periods of dentition and puberty. The disease is paroxysmal, of varying duration and number of attacks; with each attack the head is bowed forward and then relaxed. Also called nodding spasm, spasm us nutans, and eclampsia nutans. - To send salaam, to send one's compliments. [Colloq.] salaam, sal am (sa-läm'), v. i. and t. [ This was the place where the multitude a embled every morning to sal am the Padishah. J. T. Wheeler , Short Hist. India, p. 165. IMG:content-2721.png:[blocks in formation] salad-burnet (sal'ad-bėr"net), n. The common European burnet, Poterium San gui sorb a. It is used as a salad, and serves also as a sheep-fodder. See burnet2, 2. saladelt, n. An obsolete form of salad1. salade2t, n. See sallet2. salade2+