Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Salary \Sal"a*ry\, a. [L. salarius.]
   Saline [Obs.]

Salary \Sal"a*ry\, n.; pl. {Salaries}. [F. salaire, L. salarium,
   originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers
   for salt, which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius
   belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See {Salt}.]
   The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be
   paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed
   wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.

         This is hire and salary, not revenge.    --Shak.

   Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short
         intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.

   Syn: Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.

Salary \Sal"a*ry\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salaried}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Salarying}.]
   To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to;
   as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Source : WordNet®

salary
     n : something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he
         wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all
         their earnings" [syn: {wage}, {pay}, {earnings}, {remuneration}]
     [also: {salaried}]