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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To secrete or produce saliva.
  2. v. Informal To be full of desire or eagerness for something: salivated at the idea of winning the lottery.
  3. v. To produce excessive salivation in.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To purge by the salivary glands; produce an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in, usually by the action of mercury; produce ptyalism in.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To produce saliva.
  2. v. intransitive To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. produce saliva
  2. v. be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something

Etymologies

  1. From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare ("to spit out, also salivate"), from saliva ("spittle"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin salīvāre, salīvāt-, from salīva, saliva. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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