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- English Word Salsamentarious Definition Salt; salted; saline.
- English Word Salse Definition A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.
- English Word Salsify Definition See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.
- English Word Salso-acid Definition Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid.
- English Word Salsoda Definition See Sal soda, under Sal.
- English Word Salsola Definition A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.
- English Word salsuginous Definition Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
- English Word salt 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.
- English Word Salt Definition 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.
- English Word Salt Definition Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
- English Word Salt Definition Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
- English Word Salt Definition A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
- English Word Salt Definition A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
- English Word Salt Definition 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.
- English Word Salt Definition 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.
- English Word Salt Definition Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
- English Word Salt Definition Marshes flooded by the tide.
- English Word Salt Definition Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
- English Word Salt Definition Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
- English Word Salt Definition Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- English Word Salt Definition Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
- English Word Salt Definition 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.
- English Word Salt Definition To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- English Word Salt Definition To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
- English Word Salt Definition The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
- English Word Salt rheum Definition A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.
- English Word Salt-green Definition Sea-green in color.
- English Word Saltant Definition Leaping; jumping; dancing.
- English Word Saltant Definition In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
- English Word Saltarella Definition See Saltarello.