salicylated (sal is i lated)

[ salicylic (sal-i-sil'ik), a. [L. salix ( salic- ), willow, + -yl + -ic.] Derived from the willow: applied to a number of benzene derivatives The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia salicylic which may be derived from the glucoside salicin found in the bark and leaves of willows.Salicylic acid, an acid (C6H4.OH.CO2H) obtained from oil of wintergreen, from salicin, and from other sources. It crystallizes in tufts of slender prisms, which are odorle , with an astringent taste and a slightly irritating effect on the fauces. It is prepared commercially by the action of carbonic acid on sodium phenol (sodium carbo late). Salicylic acid has come into very general use as an antiseptic, and, being devoid of active poisonous proper ties, is employed for preserving foods, etc., from decay. It is also used in acute articular rheumatism and in myalgia.- Salicylic aldehyde, the aldehyde of salicylic acid, C6H4.OH.COH, which occurs in the volatile oil of Spiræa. It is an oily liquid with aromatic odor, soluble in water, and readily oxidized to salicylic acid. Salicylic or salicylated cotton, absorbent cotton impreg nated with salicylic acid and used as an antiseptic dre ing.-Salicylic ether, an ether formed by the combination of salicylic acid with an alcohol radical. Oil of wintergreen is salicylic methyl ether. IMG:content-2728.png:[blocks in formation] salivant saliniferous (sal-i-nif'e-rus), a . [Irreg. salinus , of salt (see saline ), + ferre = E. bear1 . ] Producing salt. sal in i form (sā-lin'i-fôrm), a . [Irreg. lin us , of salt (see saline ), + form a , form.] Having the form of salt. salinity (sa-lin'i-ti), n. [F. salinité ; as sa line + -ity .] Saline or salty character or quality; degree of saltine ; saline ne . It is shown by a glance at the charts that there are areas in the ocean of great salinity and areas of great dilution. Nature , XXX, 314. able quantity. Saliferous beds are found in salinometer (sal-i-nom'e-tér), n . [L. * sal i almost all the divisions of the geological series, from the lowest to the highest. - Saliferous sys-1. A form of hydrometer for measur- tem, in geol . , a name sometimes given to the Tria ic se- ries, because some of the most important salt-deposits of Europe occupy this geological position. nus , of salt (see saline ), + Gr. μέτρον , measure.] salicylism (sal'i-sil-izm), n . Toxic effects pro salifiable (sal'i-fi-a-bl), a . [= F. salifiable = duced by salicylic acid. salience (sā'li-ens), n . [ salien ( t ) + -се. Cf. the older form saliance .] 1. The fact or con Sp. sal if i cable = It. salificabile ; as salify + -able .] Capable of being salified, or of com- bining with an acid to form a salt. dition of being salient; the state of projecting salification (sal"i-fi-kā'shon), n. [F. salifi or being projected; projection; protrusion. The thickne and salience of the external frontal table remains apparent. Sir W. Hamilton . 2. A projection; any part or feature of an object or whole which protrudes or juts out beyond its general surface, as a molding considered with reference to a wall which it decorates. Saliences are indicated conventionally [in medieval illumination] by paling the colour, while depre ions are expre ed by deepening it. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 299. saliency (saʼli-en-si), n . Same as salience . cation ; as salify + -ation (see- fication ).] The act of salifying, or the state of being salified. salify (sal'i-fi), v . t .; pret. and pp. salified , ppr. salifying . [= F. salifier = It. sal if i care , sal , salt, + -ficare , facere , make (see- fy ).] To form into a salt, as by combination with an acid. saligot (sal'i-got), n. [Also salligot ; gots , "saligots, water caltrops, water nuts" (Cotgrave).] 1. The water-chestnut, Trapa na- tans .-2. A ragout of tripe. Davies . He himself made the wedding with fine sheeps-heads, (tribars aux ails). brave haslets with mustard, gallant salligots with garlic Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, ii. 31. ing the amount of salt present in any given solution. The numbers on the stem (see figure) show the percentages of strength for the depths to which the instrument sinks in a solution. Also salimeter , salometer . 2. A similar apparatus used for in- dicating the density of brine in the boilers of marine steam-engines, and thus showing when they should be cleansed by blowing off the deposit left by the salt water, which tends to injure the boilers as well as to dim in- ish their evaporating power. Also called salt - gage . [ salinometer-pot (sal-i-nom'e-tér- pot), n. A ve el in which water from a boiler may be drawn to test it for brine by the salinometer. salinometry (sal-i-nom'e-tri), n . L. * salinus , of salt, + Gr. -μετρία , μέτρον , measure.] The use of the salinometer. Also salimetry , salom- etry . salient (sā'li-ent), a . and n. [An altered form, to suit the L. spelling, of earlier saliant (in her.), * saillant , saillant , salien ( t- ) s , ppr. of salire , leap, spring forth (> It. salire = Sp. salir = Pg. sahir = Pr. salir , salhir , sallir = F. saillir , > E. obs. sail2 ), = Gr. άλλεσθαι , leap (> E. halter2, etc.). From the same L. verb are ult. E. sail2 , a ail ( sail3 ), sally2 , a ault , sault1, sal- tation , saltier , exult , insult , result , desultory , re- silient, salmon, etc.] I. a . 1. Leaping; bound- ing; jumping; moving by leaps; specifically, in Gr. -μετρία , μέτρον , measure.] Same as sal i- Salii (sa'li-i), n. pl . [L. Salii : see Salian2.] The priests of Mars, in ancient Rome: accords a lino terrene (sā-li'nō-te-ren'), a . herpet ., saltatorial; habitually leaping or jumping, as a frog or toad; of or pertaining to the Salient i a . The legs of both sides moving together, as in frogs and saliant animals, is properly called leaping. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 6. 2. In her ., leaping or springing: said of a beast of prey which is represented bendwise on the escutcheon, the hind feet together at the sin is- ter base, and the fore paws raised and usually on a level, though sometimes separate, nearly as when rampant. Also saliant , a ailant, effaré .-3. Shooting up or out; springing up. A Lion Salient. He had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action. Burke, To a Noble Lord. Who best can send on high The salient spout, far streaming to the sky? Pope , Dunciad, ii. 162. 4. Projecting outward; convex: as, a salient angle.-5. Standing out; conspicuous; prominent; striking. There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xi. The antiphonary furnished the anthems or verses for the beginning of the communion, the offertory, and other salient pa ages of the office. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 20. known, from his swarthy Mr. John West brook, looks and salient features, as "Jew West brook." E. Dowden , Shelley, L. 142. See bastion . (b) In geom ., Salient angle. (a) In fort . an angle bending toward the interior of a closed figure, as an ordinary angle of a polygon: opposed to reëntrant angle. Salient batrachians. Same as Salient i a , 1. II. n. A salient angle or part; a projection. I fired my revolver through the angle of the case, so as to make a hole in the tin. Having first made this lodgement in the salient , the rest of the work was easy. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 162. Some of them, in the impetus of the a ault, went even inside one of the salients of the work. N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 46. Salient i a (sā-li-en's hi-ä), n. pl . [NL., sa lien (t-)s, ppr. of salire , leap, spring: see salient .] 1. In herpet . , an old name, originating with Laurenti, 1768, of salient or saltatorial amphibians, as frogs and toads: synonymous with An ura2 , and with Batrachia in a restricted sense. -2t. In Illiger's cla ification (1811), the third ing to tradition their college was established by Numa Pompilius. See Salian2. salimeter (sā-lim'e-ter), n. [ sal , salt, + Gr. μέτρον , measure.] Same as salinometer , 1. salimetry (sa-lime-tri), n. [ sal , salt, + nometry. salina (sa-li'nä), n . [ Sp.salina : see saline , n . ] A saline; salt-works; any place where salt is deposited, gathered, or manufactured. In a large salina , northward of the Rio Negro, the salt at the bottom, during the whole year, is between two and three feet in thickne . Darwin , Geol. Observations, ii. 309. Salina group. Same as Onondaga salt - group . See salt - group . salina tion (sal-i-nā'shon), n . [ saline + -ation .] The act of washing with or soaking in salt liquor. The Egyptians might have been accustomed to wash the body with the same pickle they used in salina tion . Green hill, Art of Embalming, p. 59. saline (sa-lin' or sa'lin), a . [ sal in = Sp. Pg. It. salino , salinus (found only in neut. salinum , salt-cellar, and pl. fem. sal inæ , salt-pits: see saline , n .), sal , salt: see salt and sall.] 1. Consisting of salt or con- stituting salt: as, saline particles; saline sub- stances.-2. Of, pertaining to, or character is- tic of salt; salty: as, a saline taste. With bacon, ma saline , where never lean Beneath the brown and bristly rind was seen. Crabbe , Works, IV. 154. A delicious saline scent of sea-weed. Harper's Mag . , LXXVII. 630. Saline bath, a bath used as a substitute for sea-water, containing 36 ounces of salt to 60 gallons of water. - Sa- line infiltration, the deposit of various salts in a ti ue, as in calcareous degeneration. - Saline mixture, lemon- juice and pota ium bicarbonate. - Saline purgative, a salt with purgative properties, such as magnesium or so- dium sulphate, sodiopota ium tartrate, magnesium car- bonate, etc.- Saline waters, waters impregnated with salts, especially spring waters which contain considerable quantities of salts of the alkalis and alkaline earths, used as medicines. saline (sā-lin' or sāʻlin), n . [F. saline = Sp. Pg . It. salina , sal inæ , salt-works, salt-pits, pl. of salina , fem. of adj. (cf. ML. salina , L. and ML. salinum , a salt-cellar) * salinus , of salt: see saline , a.] A salt-spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a salt-marsh or -pit. The most part of all the salt they haue in Venice com- meth from these Salines . Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 108. The waters of the bay were already marbling over the salines and half acro the island. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 739. saline ne (sā-lin'nes), n . [ saline + -ne .] Saline character or condition. Imp . Dict. [ salinus , of salt (see saline ), 10 10 30 40 50 Salinometer. + terrenus , of earth: see terrenc .] Pertaining to or composed of salt and earth. salinoust (sā-li'nus), a. [ salinus , of salt: see saline .] Same as saline . When wood and many other bodies do petrifie... we do not usually ascribe their induration to cold, but rather unto salinous spirits, concretive juices, and causes circum their impre ions. jacent, which do a imilate all bodies not indisposed for Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., ii. 1. Same as Salic . Saliquet (sal'ik or sa-lēk'), a. Salisburia (sal-is-bū'ri-a), n. [NL. (Sir James Smith, 1798), named after R. A. Salisbury , an English botanist (born 1762).] A former ge- nus of coniferous trees, now known by the ear- lier name Ginkgo (Kaempfer, 1712). The change of name was proposed on the ground that Ginkgo (also spelled Gingko ) was a barbarism, a reason which is not ac cepted by the modern rules of nomenclature. See maiden- hair-tree, and cut under gingko . Salisbury boot. See boot2 . salitelt (sa'lit), v . t . [ salitus , pp. of salire , salt, sal , salt: see sall , salt1 .] To salt; im- pregnate or season with salt. Imp . Dict . salite2 (sāʼlīt), n . [ Sala (see def.) + -itel .] A lamellar variety of pyroxene or augite, of a grayish-green color, from Sala, Sweden, and elsewhere. See pyroxene . Also spelled sahlite . salitral (sal'i-tral), n . [Sp., salitre = It. sal- nitro , saltpeter, sal , salt, + nitrum , niter: see niter .] A place where saltpeter occurs or is collected. We pa ed also a muddy swamp of considerable extent, which in summer dries, and becomes incrusted with var i ous salts, and hence is called a salitral . Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, I. 90. saliva (sā-līʼvä), n . [In ME. salve , salive = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. saliva ; saliva , spittle, saliva, slime. Cf. Gr. σίαλον , spittle, Ru , slina , Gael. seile , spittle; perhaps akin to slime .] Spittle; the mixed secretion of the salivary glands and of the mucous membrane of the mouth, a colorle ropy liquid which nor mally has an alkaline reaction. Its physiological use is to keep moist the tongue, mouth, and fauces, thus aiding the sense of taste, and to a ist mastication and deglutition. Specifically, saliva is the secretion of the salivary glands, which in man and many other animals contains a digestive ferment, ptyalin. See ptyalin , and cuts under parotid and salivary . saliva-ejector (sā-li'vä-e-jek"tor), n. A saliva- pump. salival (sā-li'val), a . [= Sp. Pg. salival = It. salivale ; as saliva + Same as salary W. C. Ru ell , Jack's Courtship, xxx i [Rare.] salivan (sa-livan), a . [L. saliva , spittle, + -an .] Same as sativary [Rare.] salivant (sal'i-vant), and n. [ sal i- van(t-)s. pr. of salivare , spit out, salivate. saliva , spittle see saliva .] I. a . Promoting The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-2730.png:[blocks in formation] of a patient. A hooked tube is inserted in the mouth, and is connected at the other end with a valved chamber through which is pa ed a small stream of water. The vacuum thus produced draws out from the C mouth any exce of sa- liva. Also called saliva- ejector. salivary (sal'i-va- ri), a. [= F. sal i- vaire = Pg. salivar = It. salivare, Salivary Glands. a, sublingual; b, submaxillary: their ducts opening at d, beside the tongue on the floor of the mouth; c, parotid, its duct (Stenson's), e, opening opposite the second upper molar tooth. my, IMG:content-2731.png:[blocks in formation] like a goiter. They are also very large in some birds, as swifts and woodpeckers. - Buccal salivary papilla, the prominent opening in the cheek of the duct of the parotid gland. Salivary calculus, a concretion found in the duct of Wharton, and consisting chiefly of carbonates of lime and magnesia, and phosphate of lime. These calculi are also sometimes found in the ducts of the parotid and submaxillary glands. - Salivary corpuscles, pale spherical nucleated bodies found in the saliva, containing numerous fine granules in ince ant agitation.-Salivary diastase. Same as ptyalin. - Salivary fistula, an abnormal opening on the side of a salivary duct.-Salivary tubes of Pflueger, the intra lobular ducts of the salivary glands. salivate (sal'i-vāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. sal i vated, ppr. salivating. [ It. salivare = Sp. Pg. Pr. salivar = F. saliver ), spit out, also salivate,