Externally, there is a dense covering of bluish crustaceous lichens and brownish oak-tassels, which are held in position by saliva and strands of spider's silk.
These twigs are fastened to each other by the saliva of the builders, and by the same cement the entire fabric is made to adhere to the side of the chimney in which it is placed.
Over all is placed a close and compact thatching of small lichens, a species of Parmelia, glued thereon by the viscid saliva of the builders.
He made droll grimaces, the pain was so bad, and the saliva ran out of his mouth.
The saliva was running from the corners of his mouth.
The hunters saw trees turned bottom upward, the roots exhibiting the marks of the elephant's teeth, and still wet with the saliva from his vast mouth.
The eland had turned from a rufous dun colour to that of a leaden blue; the saliva fell from his lips in long streamers, foam dappled his broad chest, the tears rolled out of his big eyes, and his gallop became changed to a weary trot.
His bones, teeth, and saliva are employed as a medicine.
He kept them there, and afterward, when he was showing them to a friend, he laughed so that drops of saliva flew from his mouth and shot two of them dead.
Much has been said of the profuse discharge of saliva from the mouth of the rabid dog.
A lady would nurse her dog, after I had declared it to be rabid, and when he was dangerous to every one but herself, and even to her from the saliva which he plentifully scattered about.
It is the saliva of a rabid animal received into a wound, or on an abraded surface.
It does not only exist in the saliva and the mucus of the mouth, but likewise in the blood and the parenchyma of the salivary glands; but not in the pulpy substance of the nerves.
There was a considerable flow of saliva from the corners of his mouth.
It is the saliva becoming more and more glutinous, irritating the fauces and threatening suffocation.
Ashburner and Mr. King inoculated a hen with the salivafrom a rabid cow.
The application of the saliva upon recent wounds appears to have been as often succeeded by confirmed rabies as when the dog had been bitten by a rabid animal.
The dog that attacked it must have been rabid, and some of his saliva must have remained about the coat of the spaniel, by which the servant was fatally inoculated.
There is a constant discharge of saliva from the mouth, far greater than when the true paralysis exists.
He was examined before several of the medical students; one of whom, in order to make more sure of the affair, inoculated a guinea-pig with the saliva taken from the man's mouth.
The flow of saliva had stopped and there was less delirium.
The horse sucks the water that is placed before him, the dog laps it; and both of them are subject to inflammation of the tongue, to enlargement of that organ, and to a considerable or constant flow of salivaover it.
In the galleries are situated the cells, separated from one another by transverse partitions, which are formed of chips of wood, cemented by the saliva of the bee.
The magi also perform over them their mystic rites, amongst which the only topical application is made by chewing some roots and blowing the fragments, and accompanying saliva violently upon the part, with many antic capers.
Gun-shot wounds are administered to by the magi, who powwow over them, rattle their gourds and sing, whilst they chew roots and blow out the fragments and saliva on the part.
The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication.
While we are eating, the saliva flows into the mouth more copiously, which excites a more acute sensation of taste.
This flow of saliva is likewise frequently excited by the smell or sight of substances agreeable to the taste, which causes an appetite, or desire of eating, similar to that caused by an accumulation of gastric juice in the stomach.
In both there is a free discharge of saliva from the mouth during mastication.
Rabies is a contagious disease, which is usually transmitted by a bite and by the introduction of a virus contained in the saliva of an affected animal.
The animal coughs, or tries to cough, saliva flows from the mouth, the breathing is performed with the greatest difficulty and accompanied with a loud noise; the animal appears as if strangled and often falls exhausted.
Fistulous passages may also be developed upon the sides of the face, through which saliva is discharged instead of flowing into the mouth, and are called salivary fistulas.
It will cause a free flow of saliva from the mouth.
Anyway saliva began running from his mouth apart from any will of his own.
At that moment Ivan Ilyitch spluttered so that a great dab of saliva flew on to the tablecloth in a most conspicuous place.
Their houses and walks have frequently a very disgusting appearance, from large deposits of that red saliva having been spit out of the mouth upon them.
The saliva arising from such a mixture is a kind of blood-red color, and is very copious.
And how often do we find even the condemned, and how much more often the still successful criminal, anointing with the saliva of their own lying tongues their own ears, ay, even with the whine of self-sympathy!
The story that the cancerous affection arose from the saliva of Daft Jamie, communicated by a bite, was resolutely held to by the people.
I do not wonder that the savages should be exempt from so common a complaint, as they are accustomed from childhood to chew tobacco leaves mixed with salt and the saliva of old women, and reduced into the form of an unguent.
The Abipones constantly chew tobacco leaves mixed with salt, and the saliva of old women, calling it medicine.
To remedy this deficiency they burn a shrub called by the Spaniards vidriera, and sprinkle its ashes, which have a saltish taste, on meat and on tobacco leaves, previously chewed and kneaded together with the saliva of old women.
The hole of the lip, which neither salve nor plaster will cure, however, remains, and in speaking the saliva sometimes flows profusely through it; it also impedes them a little in pronouncing some words.
When liquid is taken with the bread, the saliva does not flow so freely as when it is eaten dry.
Give bread so stale that the child has to soak it with its saliva before it can swallow the bread.
While the mastication is going on the saliva becomes mixed with the food.
In the saliva is the ptyalin, which begins to digest the starch.
A mouthful of food followed by a swallow of liquid forces the contents of the mouth into the stomach before the salivahas the opportunity to act.
This scientist was Nicholas Stensen, the discoverer of the duct of the parotid gland, which conducts saliva into the mouth, and the founder, in the truest sense of the word, of the modern science of geology.
The anguinum or serpent's egg, was a congeries of small snakes rolled together, and incrusted with a shell, formed by the saliva or viscous gum, or froth of the mother serpent.
The blow would not have brought tears from the eyes of a toddler, but this great calf emitted a wild yope, and opening his mouth let his saliva pour on to his slate.
The amount of lime must be such that the saliva will turn red, and depends upon the size of the betel nut and the betel leaf.
Saliva mixed with betel nut is used for the same purpose, and also for pains in the stomach.
Following this is the reddening of the saliva by the chemical action of the lime upon the betel nut and the leaf.
To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
In the mouth the saliva is mixed with the secretion from the buccal glands.
To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as salivaor other matter, from the mouth.
In man the saliva is a more or less turbid and slighty viscid fluid, generally of an alkaline reaction, and is secreted by the parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual glands.
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
The magical use to which spittle may be put marks it out, like blood or nail-parings, as a suitable material basis for a covenant, since by exchanging their saliva the covenanting parties give each other a guarantee of good faith.
Even in a man's own house his saliva is carefully swept away and obliterated for a similar reason.
On the Slave Coast, for the same reason, whenever a king or chief expectorates, the saliva is scrupulously gathered up and hidden or buried.
The taste of the tobacco makes the saliva flow from the glands into the mouth.
The three glands which make the saliva for acting on the food in the mouth.
If the tobacco-soaked saliva were all swallowed, the man would be poisoned.
The chewing of tobacco causes the loss of much saliva which is needed to help digest the food.
Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart.
In general such topics, including a very large number of saliva charms and cures, have been omitted from the present list.
This juice has a peculiar influence upon fats, which remain unchanged by saliva and gastric juice; and not until dissolved by pancreatic juice, and made into what chemists call an emulsion, can they be absorbed into the system.
Starch, which under the action of the saliva changes into glucose or grape-sugar, is present in vegetables and cereals.
If this is not done, we run the danger of disturbing the functions of the body, inasmuch as these dry hulls are dissolved neither by the saliva of the mouth nor the gastric juice of the stomach.
The perspiration on the surface of the body withdraws moisture from the inside of the body to such an extent as to diminish even the saliva in the mouth, so necessary to digestion.
This saliva possesses the quality of preparing the milk for the necessary change which will take place, when it reaches the child's stomach.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saliva" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
