salt

Definitions

1. 1

   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.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

4. 4noun

   Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

5. 5noun

   A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

6. 6noun

   A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

7. 7noun

   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.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

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

10. 10noun

    Marshes flooded by the tide.

11. 11noun

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

12. 12noun

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

13. 13noun

    Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

14. 14noun

    Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

15. 15transitive verb

    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.

16. 16transitive verb

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

17. 17intransitive verb

    To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

18. 18noun

    The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

19. 19noun

    the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms

    salinitysaltiness
20. 20noun

    negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

21. 21noun

    white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

22. 22noun

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

23. 23verb

    preserve with salt

    "people used to salt meats on ships"

24. 24verb

    add zest or liveliness to

    "She salts her lectures with jokes"

25. 25verb

    sprinkle as if with salt

    "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

26. 26verb

    add salt to

27. 27adjective

    (of speech) painful or bitter- Shakespeare

    "salt scorn"

    "a salt apology"