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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. {Salter}; superl. {Saltest}.] [AS.
sealt, salt. See {Salt}, n.]
1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt;
prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted;
as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." --Chaucer.
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2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt
marsh; salt grass.
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3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
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I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --Shak.
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4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak.
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{Salt acid} (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
{Salt block}, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt
factory. --Knight.
{Salt bottom}, a flat piece of ground covered with saline
efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
{Salt cake} (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of
sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the
first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to
Leblanc's process.
{Salt fish}.
(a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar
fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
(b) A marine fish.
{Salt garden}, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of
sea water for the production of salt, employing large
shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
{Salt gauge}, an instrument used to test the strength of
brine; a salimeter.
{Salt horse}, salted beef. [Slang]
{Salt junk}, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]
{Salt lick}. See {Lick}, n.
{Salt marsh}, grass land subject to the overflow of salt
water.
{Salt-marsh caterpillar} (Zool.), an American bombycid moth
({Spilosoma acraea} which is very destructive to the
salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also {woolly
bear}. See Illust. under {Moth}, {Pupa}, and {Woolly
bear}, under {Woolly}.
{Salt-marsh fleabane} (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb
({Pluchea camphorata}) with rayless purplish heads,
growing in salt marshes.
{Salt-marsh hen} (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under {Rail}.
{Salt-marsh terrapin} (Zool.), the diamond-back.
{Salt mine}, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
{Salt pan}.
(a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also,
a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is
evaporated by the heat of the sun.
(b) pl. Salt works.
{Salt pit}, a pit where salt is obtained or made.
{Salt rising}, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a
principal ingredient. [U.S.]
{Salt raker}, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or
inclosures from the sea.
{Salt sedative} (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]
{Salt spring}, a spring of salt water.
{Salt tree} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Halimodendron
argenteum}) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian
region and in Siberia.
{Salt water}, water impregnated with salt, as that of the
ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also,
tears.
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Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a sort of traitors here. --Shak.
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{Salt-water sailor}, an ocean mariner.
{Salt-water tailor}. (Zool.) See {Bluefish}.
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