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salival, a. and n. Now rare.|səˈlaɪvəl|
[ad. mod.L. salīvāl-is, f. L. salīva: see prec. and -al1. Cf. OF. salival.]
A. adj. = salivary.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvi. (1686) 116 Salival conduits and passages. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar iii. 34 That salival ferment in the mouth which inchoates digestion. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xi. 195 To afford that noble digestive salival Liquor to be mixed with the Food in Mastication. 1740Phil. Trans. XLI. 441 The Vessels called salival Ducts by Coschivitzius. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xli. IV. 124 He suspects that they may be salival vessels. 1881Clark Russell Ocean Free-Lance I. iii. 81 The salival froth dropping from the jaws of a bloodhound.
†B. n. pl. The salivary glands. Obs.
1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. iv. viii. 334 Ranula is a soft Swelling possessing those Salivalls under the Tongue. |