Word Meanings - HARDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A South African mullet, salted for food.

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• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SALTATORY
  Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution , a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• SALTATORIA
  A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• SALTISH
  Somewhat salt. -- Salt"ish*ly, adv. -- Salt"ish*ness, n.
• SALTATORIAL
  1. Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises. Same as Saltatorious. Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
• SALT
  1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." Chaucer. 2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SALTPETER; SALTPETRE
  Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• OXYSALT
  A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.
• SESQUISALT
  A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.