<B>salutatory, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>expressing greeting; welcoming. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) designating the address by the salutatorian at graduation exercises in a college or school. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an address of greeting. <DD><B> 2. </B>an opening address welcoming guests at the graduation of a class. </DL>
<A NAME="salute">
<B>salute, </B>verb, <B>-luted,</B> <B>-luting,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to honor in a formal manner as by raising the hand to the head, by firing guns, or by dipping flags. <BR> <I>Ex. We salute the flag every day at school. The soldier saluted the officer.</I> (SYN) welcome, hail. <DD><B> 2. </B>to meet with kind words, a bow, clasp of the hand, kiss, or other greeting; greet. <BR> <I>Ex. The old gentleman walked along the avenue saluting his friends.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make a bow, gesture, or the like, to. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to come to (the eye or ear); strike; meet. <BR> <I>Ex. Shouts of welcome saluted their ears.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a salute. <DD><B> 2. </B>to perform a salutation. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an act of saluting; sign of welcome, farewell, or honor. <BR> <I>Ex. The queen gracefully acknowledged the salutes of the crowd.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the act or gesture by which a person or thing, such as a superior officer or national flag, is honored or shown respect. <DD><B> b. </B>the position, such as of the hand, rifle, or sword, in saluting. noun <B>saluter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="salutiferous">
<B>salutiferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>healthful; salubrious. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) conducive to well-being, safety, or salvation. </DL>
<A NAME="salv">
<B>Salv.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Salvador. </DL>
<A NAME="salvable">
<B>salvable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of a ship, cargo, or the like) <B>=salvageable.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Theology.) admitting of salvation. </DL>
<A NAME="salvadoran">
<B>Salvadoran, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with El Salvador, a country in western Central America, or its people. <DD><I>noun </I> a person born or living in El Salvador. </DL>
<A NAME="salvadorean">
<B>Salvadorean</B> or <B>Salvadorian, </B>adjective, noun. =Salvadoran.</DL>
<A NAME="salvage">
<B>salvage, </B>noun, verb, <B>-vaged,</B> <B>-vaging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of saving a ship or its cargo from wreck or capture. <BR> <I>Ex. After the ship sank, salvage of its cargo was impossible.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a payment for saving it. <BR> <I>Ex. The owners paid a high salvage to recover the ship's cargo.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the rescue of property from fire, flood, shipwreck, or other danger. <BR> <I>Ex. Salvage of the furniture was hampered by the heat of the flames.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>the property salvaged or saved. <BR> <I>Ex. the salvage from a shipwreck or a fire.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the value of this property, or the proceeds from its sale. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>any saving from ruin. <BR> <I>Ex. the salvage of one's dignity.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>anything saved thus. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to save from fire, flood, shipwreck, or capture. <BR> <I>Ex. The passengers and crew ... were evacuated ... except for the captain and six of his men, who are remaining, trusting that the ship ... may be salvaged (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. to salvage one's reputation.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salvageability">
<B>salvageability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being salvageable. </DL>
<A NAME="salvageable">
<B>salvageable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be salvaged. <BR> <I>Ex. Submarines preyed particularly on tankers during the war, but there is little hope that oil cargoes are salvageable (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salvagearchaeology">
<B>salvage archaeology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the hasty excavation of sites about to be ruined or made inaccessible by a construction project, flooding, or other manmade destruction, in order to salvage archaeological remains. <BR> <I>Ex. The site was discovered in the course of salvage archaeology in an area that will soon be flooded by a hydroelectric project (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<B>salvation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of saving or state of being saved; preservation from destruction, ruin, loss, or calamity. <BR> <I>Ex. Many a Burgoyne has capitulated because the means of salvation were not ... put into his hands (Archibald Alison).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or thing that saves. Christians believe that Christ is the salvation of the world. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) Sleep is the salvation of the nervous system (M. L. Holbrook).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of saving the soul; deliverance from sin and from punishment for sin. (SYN) redemption. </DL>
<A NAME="salvational">
<B>salvational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or concerned with salvation. adv. <B>salvationally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="salvationarmy">
<B>Salvation Army,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an international organization to spread the Christian religion and help the poor, founded in England in 1865 by William Booth. </DL>
<A NAME="salvationism">
<B>salvationism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> religious teaching which lays prime stress on the saving of the soul. </DL>
<A NAME="salvationism">
<B>Salvationism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles or methods of the Salvation Army. </DL>
<A NAME="salvationist">
<B>salvationist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a teacher or disciple of salvationism. <BR> <I>Ex. They were rich ... and were both internationally famous as applied salvationists (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salvationist">
<B>Salvationist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of the Salvation Army. <BR> <I>Ex. She was the daughter of Salvationists.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I>having to do with Salvationists or Salvationism. <BR> <I>Ex. Salvationist leaders from many countries met in London (Norman S. Marshall).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salve">
<B>salve</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>salved,</B> <B>salving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a soft, greasy substance put on wounds and sores; healing ointment. <BR> <I>Ex. Is this salve good for burns?</I> (SYN) unguent. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B> <BR> <I>Ex. The kind words were a salve to my hurt feelings. Ronald had this salve for his conscience (Charles Kingsley).</I> (SYN) balm. <DD><B> b. </B>(Slang.) praise; flattery. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put salve on. <BR> <I>Ex. The nurse salved the burns with ointment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. He salved his conscience by the thought that his lie harmed no one.</I> (SYN) soothe. </DL>
<A NAME="salve">
<B>salve</B> (2), transitive verb, <B>salved,</B> <B>salving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to save from loss or destruction; salvage. </DL>
<A NAME="salve">
<B>salve</B> (3), interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> hail! <BR> <I>Ex. "Salve Regina, mater misericordiae," he prayed (Edgar Maass).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salver">
<B>salver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tray, especially one for food or drinks or a small one, such as for letters or calling cards. </DL>
<A NAME="salverform">
<B>salverform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) (of a corolla) shaped like a tube, with the limb spreading out flat. </DL>
<B>salvia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of herbs and shrubs of the mint family, especially the scarlet sage and the common garden sage; sage. <I>Salvia</I> is commonly used to refer to the ornamental varieties of sage. </DL>
<A NAME="salvific">
<B>salvific, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to save; providing or causing salvation. <BR> <I>Ex. A number of liberal Catholic thinkers have suggested that unbaptized children may get to heaven after all because of God's "salvific will"--his desire that all mankind be saved (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salvo">
<B>salvo</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>-vos</B> or <B>-voes,</B> verb, <B>-voed,</B> <B>-voing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the discharge of several guns at the same time as a broadside or as a salute. <DD><B> b. </B>the dropping by an aircraft of a complete rack of bombs at the same time over a target. <DD><B> c. </B>the launching at the same time of every rocket in a group ofrockets. <BR> <I>Ex. It could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets (Time).</I> <DD><B> d. </B>the projectiles or bombs thus discharged, dropped, or fired. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. a salvo of rocks, a salvo of insults. Britain's electioneering war will begin with a salvo of statistics tomorrow (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a round of cheers or applause. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to discharge a salvo (of). </DL>
<A NAME="salvo">
<B>salvo</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-vos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a reservation (as of a right); saving clause; proviso. <DD><B> 2. </B>a quibbling evasion. <DD><B> 3. </B>an expedient for saving a person's reputation or soothing offended pride or conscience. </DL>
<A NAME="salvolatile">
<B>sal volatile,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. </B>a colorless or white crystalline salt of ammonium; ammonium carbonate; volatile salt. <DD><B> 2. </B>an aromatic solution of this, used especially to relieve faintness and headaches. </DL>
<A NAME="salvor">
<B>salvor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who salvages or attempts to salvage vessels, cargo, or other endangered, damaged, or abandoned property. <DD><B> 2. </B>a ship used in salvage. </DL>
<A NAME="salwar">
<B>salwar, </B>noun. =shalwar.</DL>
<A NAME="sam">
<B>Sam.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Samuel (two books of the Old Testament, usually distinguished as I Sam. or 1 Sam.; II Sam. or 2 Sam.). </DL>
<A NAME="sam">
<B>SAM, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a surface-to-air missile. <BR> <I>Ex. The North's air-defense system continually grows stronger with SAMs (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>samadh, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place of immolation or burial, especially the tomb of a Hindu yogi supposed to be lying in a state of trance. </DL>
