Category:Salad

Sal"ad, n. Etym: [f. salade, oit. salata, it. insalata, fr. salare to Salt, fr. L. sal salt. See salt, and cf. Slaw.]

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 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.