more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the
adult black spotted trout and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.
Salmon
(Salm"on), a. Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Salmonet
(Salm"on*et) n. [Cf. Samlet.] (Zoöl.) A salmon of small size; a samlet.
Salmonoid
(Sal"mon*oid) a. [Salmon + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ, a family of
fishes including the trout and salmon. — n. Any fish of the family Salmonidæ.
Salogen
(Sal"o*gen) n. [L. sal salt + -gen.] (Chem.) A halogen. [Obs.]
Salol
(Sal"ol) n. [Salicylic + - ol.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.
salometer
(sa*lom"e*ter) n. See Salimeter.
Salometry
(Sa*lom"e*try) n. Salimetry.
Salon
(||Sa`lon") n. [F. See Saloon.] An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural,
fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
Saloon
(Sa*loon") n. [F. salon fr. F. salle a large room, a hall, of German or Dutch origin; cf. OHG.
sal house, hall, G. saal; akin to AS. sæl, sele, D. zaal, Icel. salr, Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably
to L. solum ground. Cf. Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.]
1. A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception,
esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls.
Macaulay. 2. Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating
saloon; a dancing saloon.
We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.]
J. P. Mahaffy. Saloop
(Sa*loop") n. An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time
much used in London. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.
Salp
(Salp) n. (Zoöl.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidæ.
Salpa
(||Sal"pa) n.; pl. L. Salpæ E. Salpas [NL.: cf. L. salpa a kind of stockfish.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from an
internal organ, a series of the other kind. These are united together, side by side, so as to form a chain,
or cluster, often of large size. Each of the individuals composing the chain carries a single egg, which
develops into the solitary kind.
Salpian
(Sal"pi*an Sal"pid) , n. (Zoöl.) A salpa.
Salpicon
(Sal"pi*con) n. [F. salpicon, Sp. salpicon.] Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of
veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. Bacon.
Salpingitis
(||Sal`pin*gi"tis) n. [NL. See Salpinx, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the salpinx.
