salt
salt is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
- noun. Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
- noun. A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
- noun. A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
- noun. Marshes flooded by the tide.
- noun. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
- noun. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
- noun. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- noun. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- intransitive verb. To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
- noun. The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
- noun. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- noun. 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
- 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
- adjective. (of speech) painful or bitter- Shakespeare
"salt scorn"
"a salt apology"
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salts, salted, salten, salter, saltly, saltest, salting, saltless, saltness
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