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Salus, v. Also: -use, -uis, -uce, -uz, sallus. P.t. and p.p. also salu(i)st. [Late ME salus (c1440), appar. f. Salus n.]

1. tr. To salute; to greet with words and gestures expressive of respect or honour.Also (once) const. to (the person greeted).Also fig.(1) pres. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi 893.
This is a lord, and chanslar off Ingland; To salus him ye may be propyr skill 1490 Irland Mir. I 143/5.
The angell of God mycht, salusand and honorand hir say, ‘Aue maria’ 1494 Loutfut MS 9a.
Sallusand dukis thai suld say rycht hie & rycht mychty prince & rycht noble duk of sic a place a1500 Bk. Chess 1903.
Quhy suld his excellens Tak sic a lak to do sic reuerens And he so hie … To salus so two beggaris on the gait c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. v 47.
And gif ye salus [P. saluten] your brethir anlie c1520-c1535 Id. Hebrews xi 13.
And salusand [P. gretinge] thame 1528 Lynd. Dreme 149.
Me thocht ane lady, of portratour perfyte, Did salus me, with benyng contynancep.t., p.p. 1375 Barb. iv 509 (C).
Than went thai to the kyng in hy, And hym salusit full curtasly a1500 Henr. Fab. 1365 (Bass., Ch.)(see (b) below). c1520-c1535 Nisbet Mark xii 38.
Scribes, that will gang in stoolis, and be salusit [P. salutid] in the mercat c1520-c1535 Id. Luke i 40.
Scho entrit into the hous … and salusit [P. grette] Elizabeth(b) ?1438 Alex. ii 50.
Salust c1450-2 Howlat 242 (A).
And all [sc. the birds] apperit to the Pape, … Salust his sanctitud with spirituale speike 1456 Hay II 7/21.
And with that he lichtit doune of his pallefray, and salust the noble knycht a1500 Henr. Fab. 1365 (Bann.).
With reuerence I salust [Bass., Ch. salusit] him agane: ‘Welcum fader’ a1500 Golagros and Gawane 382.
Thay … salust the souerane … Courtesly inclinand, and kneland on kne a1500 Ib. 136, etc. a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 422. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi 139.
‘Sen ye ar Scottis, ȝeit salust sall ye be; Gud deyn, dawch Lard, bach lowch banȝoch a de' c1475 Ib. viii 1659.
The harrold than with honour reuerendly Has salust him apon a gudly maner c1475 Ib. vi 131. a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow ii 17.
Innocentlie scho salust on hir kne This carlage man, this foirsaid Colkelbe 1490 Irland Mir. I 124/26, etc. a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1384. 1494 Loutfut MS 10a.
And gif it be lady princesse or vtheris thai suld be salust eftir the degre of thair husbandis a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 545, etc. ?a1500 Remembrance of the Passion 289.
Think how thai fell on thair kneis and salust him for scorne c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 95.
The mery foulis blissfullest of chere Salust Nature me thoucht on thair manere 1535 Stewart 45903.
With mony benge and bek, He salust him a1540 Freiris Berw. 309 (M). c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii 37.
[He] saluist thame on his best wayis anone. … In gentill wise thay him contersalued 1560 Id. Seven Sages 245. a1578 Pitsc. I 181/3.
[They] reverentlie salust the Duik of Albanie(2) 1494 Loutfut MS 3a.
Salusand the juge eftir his state & dignyte sayand [etc.] 1494 Ib. 10a.
The gret panneter and al vtheris officiaris callit gret suld be salust eftir the estait at the personnys ar(3) intr. c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 101.
Syne to dame Flora … Thay saluse and thay thank a thousand syse(4) fig. a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 37 (Asl.).
Thow tirrane tressonable and germane to Judas [sc. the world], Quhom thow can kis, saluce & embrace … His saull thow sesis

b. With non-personal or inanimate obj.As of birds greeting nature, the day, etc., with song. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 60/18.
With notis glaid … This joyfull merle so salust scho the day, … Saying [etc.] 1513 Doug. xii v 90.
The Rutilianys … With huge brute … Salust [L. salutant] this syng or takyn augurian 1513 Ib. xiii Prol. 168.
Salus [Ruddim. salute] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 197.
Quhov euerilke bird drest thame for tyl aduance To salus Nature with thare melodye

c. absol. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v 576.
Quhen Wallace saw that thai war ma than he, Than did he nocht but salust curtasle

2. With a title as predicate complement or in adv. phrase introduced by as: To salute, greet or hail (one) (as) king, duke, etc.Also ironically.(1) 1531 Bell. Boece II 344.
In the time of his coronatioun stude afore him ane Hielandman and salust him King of Scottis, in eloquent meter of his langage 1533 Id. Livy I 105/24. 1533 Boece 38b.
Be als mekill solempnite and pompe as the tyme sufferit he was be the pepill salust king 1533 Ib. 66, etc.
Lifting Rewthare in the kingis throne and arraying him with regall ornamentis thai salust him souerane a1568 Bannatyne MS 32b/52.
Ane king of Jowis thay salust him in scorn(2) a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 995 (Asl.).
As king of Jowis thai salust him in scorne 1494 Loutfut MS 9b.
Gif the son had lordschip of duchery … he sal saluz him as duk 1533 Boece 367b.
And caus the barouns of Pichtis denude of armys, salus me as souerane 1533 Bell. Livy I 41/22. c1530-40 Stewart Maitl. F. 353/27.
I salust hir as lady sowerane

3. To salute in farewell. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1341.
It hevyit hir of that departing … Scho braist the graif and salust hir sueit thing