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