prop. n. (Geography) The administrative capital city of Tanzania. Population (2000) = 1, 360, 850. [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Brunei. Population (2000) = 52, 300. [ PJC ]

n. [ It., fr. Marsala, in Sicyly. ] A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Salam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the exciseman just as he was folding up that letter. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make or perform a salam. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have salaamed and kowtowed to him. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being salable; salableness. Duke of Argyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Sale. ] Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. -- Sal"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sal"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient. ] Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sa*la"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. salacitas: cf. F. salacité ] Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salade, OIt. salata, It. insalata, fr. salare to salt, fr. L. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Slaw. ] 1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leaves eaten raw are termed salad. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a period when a person is young and inexperienced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A helmet. See Sallet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Vegetables for salad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saleratus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the Chinese name. ] (Zool.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably of American Indian origin. ] (Bot.) The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. salām peace, safety. ] A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. [ Written also salaam. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salamandre, L. salamandra, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Per. samander, samandel. ] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a long tail, but are destitute of scales. They are true Amphibia, related to the frogs. Formerly, it was a superstition that the salamander could live in fire without harm, and even extinguish it by the natural coldness of its body. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth immediately. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A large poker. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metal.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Giant salamander. (Zool.) See under Giant. --
Salamander's hair or
Salamander's wool (Min.), a species of asbestos or mineral flax. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Salamander + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The salagane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. salarius. ] Saline [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Salaries [ F. salaire, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt. ] The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Salaried p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying ] To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not salable; unmerchantable. -- n. That which can not be sold. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ OE. vassalage, F. vasselage, LL. vassallaticum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A territory held in vassalage. “The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Vassals, collectively; vassalry. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]