salt-water sailor

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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