Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SALVABILITY

SALVABIL'ITY, noun [from salvable.] The possibility of being saved or admitted to everlasting life.

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SALVABLE

SALV'ABLE, adjective [Latin salvus, safe; salvo, to save.]That may be saved, or received to everlasting happiness.

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SALVAGE

SALV'AGE, noun [Latin salvus, salvo.]In commerce, a reward or recompense allowed by law for the saving of a ship, or goods from loss at sea, either by shipwreck or other means, ...

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SALVATION

SALVA'TION, noun [Latin salvo, to save.]1. The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity.2. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from th...

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SALVATORY

SALV'ATORY, noun A place where things are preserved; a repository.

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SALVE

SALVE, noun sav. [Latin salvus.]1. A glutinous composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; when spread on leather or cloth, it is called a plaster.2. Help; remedy...

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SALVER

SAL'VER, noun A piece of plate with a foot; or a plate on which any thing is presented.

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SALVIFIC

SALVIF'IC, adjective [Latin salvus and facio.] Tending to save or secure safety. [A bad word and not used.]

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SALVO

SAL'VO, noun [from the Latin salvo jure, an expression used in reserving rights.] An exception; a reservation; an excuse.They admit many salvos, cautions and reservations.

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SALVOR

SALV'OR, noun One who saves a ship or goods at sea.

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SAMARITAN

SAMAR'ITAN, adjective1. Pertaining to Samaria, the principal city of the ten tribes of Israel, belonging to the tribe of Ephraim, and after the captivity of those tribes, repeop...

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SAMBO

SAM'BO, noun The offspring of a black person and a mulatto.

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SAME

SAME, adjective [Latin simul, together. Gr. Shall we suppose then that s has passed into an aspirate in this word, as in salt, Gr. or has the Greek word lost s? The word same ma...

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SAMENESS

SA'MENESS, noun1. Identity; the state of being not different or other; as the sameness of an unchangeable being.2. Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as a sameness of...

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SAMIEL

SA'MIEL,SAM'ITE, noun A species of silk stuff. obsolete

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SAMITE

SAM'ITE, n. A species of silk stuff. Obs.

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SAMLET

SAM'LET, noun A little salmon.

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SAMP

SAMP, noun A species of food composed of maize broken or bruised, boiled and mixed with milk; a dish borrowed from the natives of America, but not much used.

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SAMPANE

SAMP'ANE, noun A kind of vessel used by the Chinese.

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SAMPHIRE

SAM'PHIRE, noun [said to be a corruption of Saint Pierre.]A plant of the genus Crithmum. The golden samphire is of the genus Inula.Samphire grows on rocks near the sea shore, wh...

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SAMPLE

SAM'PLE, noun [Latin exemplum.]1. A specimen; a part of any thing presented for inspection or intended to be shown, as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth...

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SAMPLER

SAM'PLER, noun [Latin exemplar, supra.] A pattern of work; a specimen; particularly, a piece of needle work by young girls for improvement.

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SAMSONS-POST

SAM'SON'S-POST, noun In ships, a notched post used instead of a ladder; also, a piece of timber that forms a return for a tackle fall.

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SANABLE

SAN'ABLE, adjective [Latin sanabilis, from sano, to heal; sanus, sound. See Sound.]That may be healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

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SANATION

SANA'TION, noun [Latin sanatio, from sano, to heal.] The act of healing or curing. [Not used.]

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SANATIVE

SAN'ATIVE, adjective [Latin sano, to heal.] Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal.

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SANATIVENESS

SAN'ATIVENESS, noun The power of healing.