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Spit :: Spit (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.

Insalivation :: Insalivation (n.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

Salivant :: Salivant (a.) Producing salivation.

Sympathetical :: Sympathetic (a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber..

Wax :: Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow..

Sputter :: Sputter (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking..

Exspuition :: Exspuition (n.) A discharge of saliva by spitting.

Salivary :: Salivary (a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc..

Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions..

Spittly :: Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit..

Masticatory :: Masticatory (n.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.

Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..

Spitter :: Spitter (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

Salivating :: Salivating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salivat.

Salivate :: Salivate (v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury..

Parotid :: Parotid (a.) Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.

Salivated :: Salivated (imp. & p. p.) of Salivat.

Slaver :: Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Slaver :: Slaver (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

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