Salt Cake
sulphate of soda, in its prepared form, for the use of glass blowers and soap manufacturers.
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Single-source entries: S (14)
These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Salt Cake, Salt Lick, Salt Marsh.
Salt Lick
a knob lick; a place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; sometimes near salt springs.
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Salt Marsh
land under pasture grasses or herbage plants, near the sea, and liable to be overflowed by it, or by the waters of estuaries, and in consequence more or less impregnated with salt.
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Salt Range
a mountain system in the Punjab, India, consisting of two main chains which run E. and W., and embrace between them an elevated table-land. It begins on the S. side of the Jhelum, runs W. to the Indus, and varies from 3,200 to 5,000 feet in height. Its appearance is exceedingly bleak and barren, but not without much savage grandeur. The system gets its name from the inexhaustible beds of rock salt that occur on the edges of the plateau. About 60,000 tons are extracted annually, four-fifths from the Mayo mines, a few miles N. E. of Pind Dadan Khan. Coal and other minerals also occur.
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Salt River
a river in Kentucky, formed of three branches, the Rolling Fork, East Fork, and Beech river. It is in the N. part of the State and joins the Ohio 19 miles S. W. of Louisville. The first and third branches unite about 11 miles N. E. of Elizabethtown. The source of the East Fork, or Salt river proper, is in Boyle co., and its course is N. through Mercer co., turning to the W. in Spencer co., and continuing through Bullitt co. in the same direction, uniting with Rolling Fork or Salt river 9 miles to the S. W. of Shepherdsville. The main river flows into the Ohio river at West Point, about 10 miles from the juncture of Rolling and East Forks. It is more than 100 miles long. Another Salt river is in northeastern Missouri, formed of three branches or forks, called North, Middle, and South Forks. The North Fork is the main river; its source is in Schuyler co. and its course is S. by S. E. until it reaches Monroe co., where it turns toward the E., then traverses Ralls co., and in Pike co. flows into the Mississippi 2 miles above the border of Louisiana. The source of Middle Fork is in Macon co., and it flows S., entering Salt river, the main fork, at Florida. The South Fork flows N., intersecting Audrain co., and unites with the Middle Fork 3 miles S. W. of Florida. This Salt river is 200 miles long.
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Salta
a province of the Argentine Republic, touching Chile and Bolivia, and nearly inclosing the province of Jujuy. Minerals are abundant, but have been neglected for agriculture and cattle-raising. Salta is watered by the Salado, San Francisco, and Bermejo; area, 48,302 square miles. Pop. (1919) 150,796.
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Salta
the capital, on the Rio Arias, 535 miles N. by W. of Córdoba, was founded in 1582; it is the seat of an archbishop, and has a seminary for priests, a national college, and a normal school for girls. Pop. (1918) 28,436.
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Saltillo
capital of the Mexican State of Coahuila; 237 miles S. W. of Laredo, Texas, and 400 N. by W. of Mexico City. It contains several convents, a small fort, a bull ring, a number of cotton factories and pulque distilleries. Pop. about 35,000.
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Saltire
or SALTIER, in heraldry, an ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, or the letter X, formed by two bends, dexter and sinister, crossing each other.
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Saltus
EDGAR EVERSTON, an American novelist; born in New York, June 8, 1858. He was educated in Europe and graduated at the Columbia Law School. Among his works may be mentioned: "The Philosophy of Disenchantment" (1885); "The Anatomy of Nega- "Mr. Incoul's Misadvention" (1886); ture" (1887); "The Truth about Tristrem Varick" (1888); "Eden" (1888); "A Transaction in Hearts" (1889); "The Pace That Kills" (1889); "A Transient Guest" (1889); "Mary Magdalen" (1892); "Imperial Purple" (1892); "Enthralled" (1894); "When Dreams Come True" (1895); "The Yellow Fay" (1905); "Daughters of the Rich" (1909); Crimson Curtain" (1916); "The Palliser Case" (1919).
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Saltwort
the Salsola, a genus of plants of the natural order Chenopodiaceæ, having hermaphrodite flowers, with five-parted perianth and a transverse appendage at the base of each of its segments, five stamens and two styles, the seed with a simple integument. The species are numerous, mostly natives of salt marshes and sea-shores, widely diffused. One only, the prickly saltwort (S. kali), is found in Great Britain. The plant is annual, with prostrate much-branched stems, awl-shaped spine-pointe aped spine-pointed leaves, and axillary solitary greenish flowers. It was formerly collected in considerable quantities on the W. shores of Great Britain, to be burned for the sake of the soda which it thus yields. S. sativa is the chief barilla plant of the S. of the country of Spain.
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Salutation
a sign which custom has rendered common, for expressing to others, in our intercourse with them, our esteem, love, submission, or good will. Greeting (in German, gruss, grüssen), is derived from the Low German gröten, to make great: thus "God greet you, means, "God make you great-bless you." Salutation sometimes consists of certain gestures. Sometimes an express assurance or wish is added to these mute signs of feeling. The difference in the forms of salutation often extends so far that one nation considers that a mark of rudeness which another esteems a mark of civility. The military salutations which were introduced among the Germans in the beginning of the 16th century consist in touching the hat or cap, lowering the standards and the sword, or raising the musket. Vessels, when meeting, salute each other by a discharge of cannon, by striking the flag, or by the cheers of the sailors, etc.
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Salvadora
a genus of plants, type of a natural order (Salvadoracex) of monopetalous dicotyledons, allied to Oleaceæ and Jasminaceæ. They have stems with slightly swollen joints, opposite entire leaves, and loose branching panicles of small flowers. S. persica is supposed to be the mustard tree of Scripture, which has very small seeds and grows into a tree. Its fruit is succulent and tastes like garden cress. The bark of the root is acrid.
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