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Webster 1913 Edition
Salad
Sal′ad
(săl′ad)
, Noun.
1.
A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food;
as, lettuce
salad
; tomato salad
, etc.Leaves eaten raw are termed
salad
. I. Watts.
2.
A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments;
as, chicken
. salad
; lobster salad
Salad burnet
(Bot.)
, the common burnet (
Poterium Sanguisorba
), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.Webster 1828 Edition
Salad
SAL'AD
, n.Raw herbs, usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil or spices, and eaten for giving a relish to other food.
Leaves eaten raw, are termed salad.