Results for salt
Definitions of salt:
part of speech: verb transitive
To sprinkle or season with salt.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: adjective
Containing salt: tasting of salt: overflowed with or growing in salt water: pungent.
part of speech: adjective
Flavored or seasoned with salt.
part of speech: noun
A common culinary substance, obtained from sea- water, salt- springs, and from mines; in chem., called chloride of sodium; a term applied to a combination of an acid with an alkaline base; that which preserves from corruption; figuratively, wit; piquancy.
part of speech: noun
Chloride of sodium, used for seasoning, and for the preservation of meat, etc.; obtained from the earth or by the evaporation of sea water; a saltcellar; anything like salt; in chemistry, the compound formed by the action of an acid on a metal or an oxide, replacing the hydrogen of the acid with a metal or a metallic element; wit; colloquially, a sailor.
part of speech: adjective
Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt.
part of speech: verb transitive
To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork: to fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
part of speech: verb
To season, sprinkle, or impregnate with salt.
part of speech: noun
A well- known substance used for seasoning, found either in the earth or obtained by evaporation from sea- water: anything like salt: seasoning: piquancy: ( chem.) a combination of an acid with a base.
Usage examples for salt:
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But it is far from pleasant to live in continual expectation of salt in one's tea or cotton in one's croquettes.
"The Diamond Pin", Carolyn Wells -
I suppose that had some address on but it was washed off by the salt water."
"Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's", Laura Lee Hope -
But one night she was in a hurry, and forgot the salt
"The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book", Constance Cary Harrison -
Almost anything, that is not salt meat.
"Hills of the Shatemuc", Susan Warner