Salt

[sɔːlt;sɒlt] or [sɔlt]

Definition

(noun.) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.

(noun.) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.

(noun.) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).

(verb.) preserve with salt; 'people used to salt meats on ships'.

(verb.) add zest or liveliness to; 'She salts her lectures with jokes' .

(verb.) sprinkle as if with salt; 'the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps'.

(verb.) add salt to.

(adj.) (of speech) painful or bitter; 'salt scorn'- Shakespeare; 'a salt apology' .

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Definition

(-) Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

(n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

(n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

(n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

(n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

(n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

(n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

(n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.

(n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

(n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.

(n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

(n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

(n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

(n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

(v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

(v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

(n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Editor: Murdoch

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Chloride of sodium, muriate of soda, common salt.

Checker: Sylvia

Definition

n. chloride of sodium or common salt a well-known substance used for seasoning found either in the earth or obtained by evaporation from sea-water: anything like salt: seasoning: piquancy: abatement modification allowance: an experienced sailor: that which preserves from corruption: an antiseptic: (chem.) a body composed of an acid and a base united in definite proportions or of bromine chlorine fluorine or iodine with a metal or metalloid: (obs.) lust.—v.t. to sprinkle or season with salt: to fill with salt between the timbers for preservation.—adj. containing salt: tasting of salt: overflowed with or growing in salt-water: pungent: lecherous: (coll.) costly expensive—ns. Salt′-block a salt-evaporating apparatus; Salt′-bott′om a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences: Salt′-bush an Australian plant of the goose-foot family; Salt′-cake the crude sodium sulphate occurring as a by-product in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid; Salt′-cat a mixture given as a digestive to pigeons; Salt′er one who salts or who makes sells or deals in salt as in Drysalter: a trout leaving salt-water to ascend a stream; Sal′tern salt-works; Salt′-foot a large saltcellar marking the boundary between the superior and inferior guests; Salt′-gauge an instrument for testing the strength of brine; Salt′-glaze a glaze produced upon ceramic ware by putting common salt in the kilns after they have been fired.—adj. Salt′-green (Shak.) sea-green.—ns. Salt′-group a series of rocks containing salt as the Onondaga salt-group; Salt′-hold′er a saltcellar; Salt′-horse salted beef; Salt′ie the salt-water fluke or dab; Salt′ing the act of sprinkling with salt: the celebration of the Eton 'Montem.'—adj. Salt′ish somewhat salt.—adv. Salt′ishly so as to be moderately salt.—ns. Salt′ishness a moderate degree of saltness; Salt′-junk hard salt beef for use at sea.—adj. Salt′less without salt: tasteless.—n. Salt′-lick a place to which animals resort for salt.—adv. Salt′ly.—ns. Salt′-marsh land liable to be overflowed by the sea or the waters of estuaries; Salt′-marsh cat′erpillar the hairy larva of an arctiid moth; Salt′-marsh hen a clapper-rail; Salt′-marsh terr′apin the diamond-backed turtle; Salt′-mine a mine where rock-salt is obtained; Salt′ness impregnation with salt; Salt′-pan a pan basin or pit where salt is obtained or made; Salt′-pit a pit where salt is obtained; Salt′-rheum a cutaneous eruption; Salts Epsom salt or other salt used as a medicine.—adj. Salt′-sliv′ered slivered and salted as fish for bait.—ns. Salt′-spoon a small spoon for serving salt at table; Salt′-spring a brine-spring; Salt′-wa′ter water impregnated with salt sea-water; Salt′-works a place where salt is made; Salt′-wort a genus of plants of many species mostly natives of salt-marshes and sea-shores one only being found in Britain the Prickly S. which was formerly burned for the soda it yielded.—adj. Salt′y (same as Saltish).—Salt a mine to deposit ore in it cunningly so as to deceive persons who inspect it regarding its value; Salt of lemon or sorrel acid potassium oxalate a solvent for ink-stains; Salt of soda sodium carbonate; Salt of tartar a commercial name for purified potassium carbonate; Salt of vitriol sulphate of zinc; Salt of wormwood carbonate of potash.—Above the salt at the upper half of the table among the guests of distinction; Attic salt wit; Below the salt at the lower half of the table; Be not worth one's salt not to deserve even the salt that gives relish to one's food; Bronzing salt used in burning gun-barrels; Epsom salts magnesium sulphate a cathartic; Essential salts those produced from the juices of plants by crystallisation; Glauber's salt or Horse salts a well-known cathartic used in woollen dyeing; Lay salt on the tail of to catch; Neutral salt a salt in which the acid and the base neutralise each other; Rochelle salt sodium potassium tartrate a laxative; Spirits of salt the old name for muriatic or hydrochloric acid; Take with a grain of salt to believe with some reserve.

Typist: Paul