salamandern.
/ˈsaləmandə/, /saləˈmandə/, U.S. /ˈsæləˌmændər/ 1.
a. A lizard-like animal supposed to live in, or to be able to endure, fire. Now only allusive.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > that lives in fire
salamander1340
pyralis1566
pyrausta1566
fireworm1567
firefly1598
miller fowl1598
Vulcanal1657
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 167 Þe salamandre þet leueþ ine þe uere.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 170 And salamandra most felly dothe manace.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 74 This Salemandre berith wulle, of whiche is made cloth and gyrdles that may not brenne in the fyre. [Cf. salamander's wool in 6.]
1590 R. Greene tr. O. Rinaldi Royal Exchange sig. Aiv Our Poets..seeing Louers scorched with affection, likeneth them to Salamanders.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 9 Like the Salamander, that is ever in the fire and never consumed.
c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 119 Yet can he live noe more without desire, Then can the salamandra without fire.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 20 The Aery Camelion and fiery Salamander are frequent there [i.e. in Madagascar].
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxvii. 464 Sin like a Salamander can live to eternity in the fire of Gods wrath.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 205/1 I have some of the hair, or down of the Salamander, which I have several times put in the Fire, and made it red hot, and after taken it out, which being cold, yet remained perfect wool. [Cf. 1481 at sense 1a.]
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 129 He had 2 Salamanders, which lived 2 hours in a great Fire.
1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton iv. 131 That he will henceforth [in the isle of Volcano] follow the example of a salamander, which always lives in fire.
b. Any tailed amphibian of the urodelous family Salamandridæ, or some closely allied family.The land salamanders form the typical genus Salamandra; the water salamanders are the newts or tritons.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [noun] > family Salamandridae (newts) > salamander
salamander1611
moron1774
salamandrian1850
salamandrid1863
salamandroid1863
salamandrine1891
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Salamandre d'eau, the water Salamander; black-backed, red-bellied, and full of yellow spots.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 26 Lacerta Salamandra aquatica, the water Salamander.
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LVIII Small Cape Salamander... It squeaks like a Rat.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The salamandra aquatica, or water salamander... The salamandra terrestris, or land salamander.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 187 Aquatic Salamanders always retain the vertically compressed tail.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxii. 421 The other [sc. Menopoma]..has been called by American writers the giant salamander.
1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 30 The Black Salamander (Triton alpestris) has no spots.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 405 The Japanese Giant Salamander (Cryptobranchus japonicus).
c. A figure of the mythical salamander used as an emblem.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > reptiles
boa1572
scytale1572
remora1612
lizard1688
salamander1688
lacertine1911
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 205/1 He beareth Argent, a Salamander in flames.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Salamander, an imaginary beast, feigned to be bred in fire.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Salamander (Her.), an emblem of constancy, is represented in flames.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 138 The last cavalier..belongs to the suite of the King of France, which is seen by the royal salamander on his back.
1841 G. A. Poole Struct. & Decor. Churches 9/2 A salamander also appears on this font [in Winchester Cathedral],..in allusion to the words which St. John spake of our blessed Lord [Matt. iii. 11].
2. transferred and figurative applied to persons, etc. with reference to sense 1a.† c. A woman who (ostensibly) lives chastely in the midst of temptations. Obsolete.
a. gen.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 45 I haue maintained that Sallamander [= fiery-red face] of yours with fire any time this two and thirty yeares. View more context for this quotation
1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. F4 I sate too hot, yet still I did desire, To liue a Salamander in the fire.
1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist 103 At a far cheaper rate they might have been Saints in Heaven than Salamanders in Hell.
1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 441 God's people are true salamanders, that live best in the furnace of afflictions.
1854 Househ. Words 8 159/1 She is a salamander in temper..for all her innocent name.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iv. 33 Madame Midas..was a perfect salamander for heat.
b. A spirit supposed to live in fire.See Paracelsus De Nymphis, Sylphis, Pygmæis, et Salamandris, etc., in Wks. (1658) II. 388 seqq.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting fire
salamander1657
salamandrine1797
1657 H. Pinnell tr. Crollius Philos. Reformed 27 To the Fire or the Firmament doe belong the Vulcanals, Pennats, Salamanders.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) Ep. According to these Gentlemen [sc. the Rosicrucians], the four Elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 4 The Sprites of fiery Termagants in Flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's Name.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. viii. 132 Like salamanders executing a frolic dance in the region of the Sylphs.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. iv. 69 A Prince I seemed o'er many a salamander.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] > of a woman > woman > in the midst of temptations
salamander1711
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 198. ¶1 There is a Species of Women, whom I shall distinguish by the Name of Salamanders. Now a Salamander is a kind of Heroine in Chastity, that treads upon Fire [etc.].
1771 Generous Husb. or Hist. Lord Lelius 37 The real beauty and avowed virtue of those lovely salamanders.
d. A soldier who exposes himself to fire in battle.
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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > victim-hero
forlorn hopes1539
forlorn fellows1577
forlorn sentinel1579
salamander1705
victim-hero1962
1705 J. Swift Descr. of Salamander in Misc. (1711) 373 Call my Lord C—— a Salamander.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 15 May in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. vii. 217 As I know that Buonaparte exposes himself as little as possible; not amongst his other vanities believing that he is a salamander.
c1849 in Spectator 21 May (1904) 810/2 Paddy Gough's a cross betwixt A bulldog and a salamander.]
1897 Daily News 20 Apr. 8/4 In battles a man who feared fire was of no use, and Mr. Gee was the soundest Salamander he had ever known.
e. slang. A fire-eating juggler.Cf. quot. s.v. salamandership n. at Derivatives.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer > types of
knife-warper?c1225
saccularian1652
fire-eater1676
fire king1796
juggler1807
stone-eater1820
sword-swallower1826
fire-swallower1857
salamander1859
jadoo-wallah1890
knife-thrower1905
gully-gully man1930
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 84 Salamanders, street acrobats and jugglers who eat fire.
1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. vi. 155 We ain't a show. Lotty ain't a clown; I ain't a jumping-horse; Liz ain't a salamander.
3. Applied to various articles used in fire or capable of withstanding great heat.† a. Asbestos. (Cf. salamander stone n.; also French salamandre pierreuse.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos
asbestos1608
salamander wool1626
salamander1668
salamander's hair1728
byssus1864
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 254 Amianthus..aliàs Asbestinus Lapis..Salamandra..the Salamandre, or incombustible stone, and Salamanders wool.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Salamander, a Stone (lately) found in Pensylvania full of Cotton, which will not consume in the Fire.
1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home ii. 19 A wooden house..with salamander, asbestos, or other fire-proof material between floors.
b. An iron or poker used red-hot for lighting a pipe, igniting gunpowder, etc.: see quots.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > other means of ignition
burning-glass1570
sunglass1591
salamander1698
fire bottle1708
fireworks1743
sunglass1801
eupyrion1827
burning-lens1831
1698 W. King Journey to London 27 Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light their Pipes withal; though in some places they use Candles, in others Salamanders.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Salamander,..a red-hot Iron to light Tobacco with.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Salamander, a piece of metal with a handle attached, which is heated for the purpose of firing guns.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Salamander, a large poker.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. xv. 196 Peggy appeared with a salamander—that is a huge poker, ending not in a point, but a red-hot ace of spades.
1898 United Service Mag. Mar. 621 The salamander—an iron kept red hot in the galley for firing the salutes.
c. Metallurgy. ‘A mass of solidified material in a furnace hearth’ (Raymond); called also bear, horse, and sow.
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1866 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 3rd Ser. 52 128 The matte melting (rohschmelzen) of the Stefanshütte does..not produce any secretions of metallic iron, (eisensauen, salamander).]
1873 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1871–3 1 112 Metallic iron, not finding heat enough in a lead-furnace to keep it sufficiently fluid to run out with the slag, congeals in the hearth, and forms what smelters term ‘sows’, ‘bears’, ‘horses’ or ‘salamanders’.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 335 To throw away in mattes, slags, and salamanders the iron it [sc. hematite] contains.
d. Cookery. A circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > browner
salamander1755
1755 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 5) App. 331 Put it in the Oven to brown, or do it with a Salamander.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper x. 232 Hold a hot Salamander over it till it is very Brown.
1804 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 10) 192 Lay in the fritters, strew a little sugar over them, and glaze them over with a red-hot salamander.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris viii. 84 Their chronometer spits—their intense Salamanders—their ovens—their pots, that can soften old ganders.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery vii. 203 This is done with a salamander, as it is called... A kitchen shovel is sometimes substituted for it.
1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green iii. 54 The smith then heated red-hot one end of a large, flat iron utensil known as the ‘salamander’ and held it above the plate until the rashers were crisp and curled.
1958 Observer 18 May 10/5 Caramelise the sugar by passing a red hot salamander very close to the surface till the sugar melts.
e. (See quots. 1873 –1895.) Also (North American), a workman's brazier.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > other tools
scratcher1812
salamander1873
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > drying by specific method > specific device
hydro-extractor1851
exsiccator1864
salamander1873
dehumidifier1921
spin dryer1939
spinner1961
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > portable receptacle for burning fuel
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coal pan1530
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brazeraine1623
brasero1652
brazier1690
firecage1770
fire-holder1789
fire basket1798
mangal1814
komfoor1841
rodney1848
Jack1849
chip pan1854
reredos1859
hibachi1863
scaldino1866
chafing-pan1867
salamander1873
1873 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. 1/7 It caught fire from the ‘salamander’ used in drying the plaster.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1059 The milk of wax, thus prepared, may be spread with a smooth brush upon the surface of a painting, allowed to dry, and then fused by passing a hot iron (salamander) over its surface.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Salamander, a term sometimes applied to a fire-proof safe.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Salamander,..a metal drum or box for containing hot coals, etc., used in drying plaster.
1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man 107 I warmed myself at a salamander flaming in an oil drum.
1971 ‘R. Lewis’ Fenokee Project viii. 151 They caught a glimpse of twinkling lights... ‘Salamanders... The workers over there have set up fire pots made out of punctured oil drums.’
4. U.S. regional. A pouched rat or gopher, esp. Geomys pinetis.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Geomyidae (gopher)
sand rat1781
tuza1787
mungofa1789
salamander1805
gopher1814
pocket gopher1873
1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 9 Apr. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 15 Their work resembles that of the salamander common to the sand hills of the States of South Carolina and Georgia.
1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 264 Thousands of ‘mole-hills’, or the habitations of an animal called ‘the salamander’..presented themselves.
1859 S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. 371 The species [of Geomys] are termed ‘gophers’ in the west, but in Georgia and Florida they are almost universally called ‘salamanders’.
1859 S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. 380 Geomys pinetis,..Salamander.
1885 S. Florida Sentinel 8 Apr. 1/6 The gophers (Florida salamanders) proved its [sc. the garden's] destruction.
1943 A. G. Powell I can go Home Again 225 The small burrowing rodent..which others call the gopher, we called the salamander.
1964 W. H. Burt Field Guide Mammals (ed. 2) 136 Southeastern pocket gopher..(Salamander).
5. A form of drinking a toast common among German students.The full expression is einem einen salamander reiben (cf. quot. 1868 below).
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting > a toast
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pledge1594
carouse1599
fathom health1600
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health1602
pitcher-praise1654
toast1746
hob-nob1761
loyal toast1799
salamander1868
ganbei1940
1868 Daily News 12 Aug. [One of the ceremonies] is called ‘rubbing a salamander’. Every student fills his glass..to the brim, and at the command of the toastmaster rubs it on the table, while the latter counts three.
1891 Times 12 May 9/3 The German emperor when he responded to the ‘thundering salamander’ in which the Bonn students drank his health.
6. passing into adj. = salamandrine adj. 1.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > quality of being incombustible > [adjective] > fire-resistant > able to withstand fire
salamandrian1602
salamander1711
salamandrine1712
salamanderish1921
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 198. ¶3 As for this Part of the fair Sex who are not of the Salamander Kind, I would..advise them..to avoid..what Religion calls Temptations.
1745 E. Young Consolation 68 And is Lorenzo's Salamander-Heart Cold, and untouch'd, amid these sacred Fires?
1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 302 I would rather..have gone through the same proportion of fire, as I have more salamander than dolphin properties.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
salamander-gathering n.
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1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 361/2 Good master Empedocles, you are welcome. It is long since you went a salamander-gathering down Etna.
salamander-like adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > free from harm or damage
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harmlessc1290
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inviolatea1420
unscathed1425
dangerlessc1440
unshendc1440
undefiledc1460
unhurted1483
hailscarta1522
undefaced1537
unpairedc1540
uncloyeda1560
undamnified1576
undemnified1576
uninjured1578
unfoiled1579
salamander-like1593
unvulnered1613
undamaged1648
invulneratea1680
sincere1700
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 19 On thee Salamander-like Ierusalem, haue I cast the coole water of my Teares.
1718 Entertainer No. 32. 219 A Person..that Salamander like feeds in the Fire of Contention.
a1814 C. Dibdin Songs (1842) 185/2 While, salamander-like, the pond'rous anchor lies.
1885 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 308 Salamander-like animals with four well-developed but short limbs.
C2. † salamander blood n. (also salamander's blood) Obsolete (see quots.).† salamander-fly n. Obsolete a kind of fire-fly.† salamander safe n. U.S. Obsolete a fire-proof safe.† salamander stone n. Obsolete = amianthus n. 1.† salamander wool n. (also salamander's wool) Obsolete asbestos (cf. quots. 1481 at sense 1a, 1688 at sense 1a).
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > vapour caused by
salamander blood1694
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ii. 57/2 This Spirit, from its coming forth in red Vapours, is by some Authors called, The Salamanders Blood.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Salamanders Blood, is a foolish Term that the Chymists give to the red Vapours, which in Distillation of Spirit of Nitre, towards the latter end, do fill the Receiver with red Clouds.
salamander-cloth n. an incombustible cloth made from asbestos.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from mineral based fibres > [noun]
amiant1420
salamander-cloth1841
asbestos cloth1857
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos > cloth made of
salamander-cloth1841
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 337/1 The salamander-cloth sent by the Tartar king to the Roman pontiff.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > member of (fire-fly)
fireworm1567
firefly1655
salamander-fly1668
lightning bug1778
firebug1789
glow-fly1789
lampyrine1842
lightning beetle1854
Photuris1858
meadow-fly1867
lampyrid1895
peeny-wally1961
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > elaterid fire-fly
fireworm1567
cucuy1605
salamander-fly1668
lightning bug1778
firebug1789
glow-fly1789
fire beetle1826
lightning beetle1854
meadow-fly1867
pyrophore1884
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 46 Pyrogonus..the Fire-fly, or Salamandre Fly.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > safe
safe1668
safe deposit1768
salamander safe1840
box1891
pete1909
keister1913
night safe1930
pete box1930
1840 Merchants' Mag. 2 280 The Salamander Safe.
1845 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. I. 194/2 These Salamander safes are made of stout, wrought bar and plate iron,..lined with a chemical preparation, which is a non-conductor of heat, and is indestructible by fire.
1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. 26 256 In April, 1833 I [sc. C. J. Gayler] patented my ‘Double Fire Proof Safe’. The same year the name ‘Salamander’ was applied to it, for the reason that one had been subjected to a very intense heat for a long time, and fully protected its valuable contents.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Salamander-safes, an American name for patent fire-proof iron safes.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Safe They are now generally made fireproof; and some of these are called ‘salamander safes’.
salamander's hair n. [compare German salamanderhaar] a kind of asbestos (see quot. 1728).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos
asbestos1608
salamander wool1626
salamander1668
salamander's hair1728
byssus1864
1728 J. Woodward Fossils All Kinds 14 English Talc, of which the coarser Sort is call'd Plaister, or Parget, the finer, Spaad, Earth-Flax, or Salamander's Hair.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > a combustible substance > [noun] > specific
brimstonea1300
salamander stone1583
stubblea1591
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > state of being unquenchable > that which is
asbestos1387
salamander stone1583
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 15v The Salamander stone, once set on fire, can neuer be quenched.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 8 Their eyes are like Salamander stones, that fier at the sight of euery flame.
salamander-stove n. U.S. a small portable stove for heating rooms.
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1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance v. 42 She has been stifled with the heat of a salamander-stove.
1892 Daily News 9 Aug. 5/4 Artificial heat was furnished by one hundred small salamander stoves.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos
asbestos1608
salamander wool1626
salamander1668
salamander's hair1728
byssus1864
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §774 Salamanders Wooll; Being a Kinde of Minerall, which whiteneth also in the Burning, and consumeth not.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 152 A Garment of Salamander-wooll.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiv. 139 Incombustible napkins and textures which endure the fire, whose materialls are call'd by the name of Salamanders wooll . View more context for this quotation
1668 [see sense 3a]. Derivatives
salaˈmanderish adj. rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > quality of being incombustible > [adjective] > fire-resistant > able to withstand fire
salamandrian1602
salamander1711
salamandrine1712
salamanderish1921
1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget xxxii. 225 Even my salamanderish body sometimes gasped like a fish out of water.
ˈsalamandership n. cf. sense 2e.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > types of
knife-playinga1400
fire-eating1754
pyrotechnics1778
salamandership1787
juggling1836
second sight1859
sword-swallowing1873
palming1899
pyro1987
1787 Microcosm No. 21. ⁋11 This illustrious Phænomenon of Salamandership and Virtue [sc. Mr. Powel, the Fire-eater].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
salamanderv.
rare.
a. intransitive. To live amidst fire, like the salamander.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > live amidst fire
salamander1857
1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 25 In one apartment..dwells a maker of lucifer-matches, salamandering in fire and brimstone.
b. transitive. To submit to great heat.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > submit to great heat
salamander1904
1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 782/1 His [sc. the Arab peasant's] garments must be salamandered and his carcass must be baked.
c. Cookery. To brown by means of a salamander.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > brown
brown1769
salamander1878
1878 Amer. Home Cook Bk. 65 When it is cooked, glaze the top and salamander it.
Derivatives
ˈsalamandering n.
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salamandering1943
1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green iii. 54 Another cooking process..which perhaps may have been peculiar to smithy families was known as ‘salamandering’.
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