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Salivate   Listen
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Salivate  v. t.  (past & past part. salivated; pres. part. salivating)  To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Salivate" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceived, and that made me all the more determined you should salivate him. You'll find before you're in the Hills long that it won't do to take lip or lead from any one. A green pilgrim is the first to get salted; I illustrated ...
— Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road - or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills • Edward L. Wheeler

... if in an enquiry after the cause of Salivation, they should think it enough to tell us, that the several Kinds of Praecipitates of Gold and Mercury) as likewise of Quick-silver and Silver (for I know that make and use of such Precipitates also) do Salivate upon the account of the Mercury, which though Disguis'd abounds in them, whereas the Difficulty is as much to know upon what account Mercury it self, rather than other Bodies, has that power of ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



Words linked to "Salivate" :   slobber, covet, drool, act reflexively, act involuntarily, saliva, drivel, dribble, salivation



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