Rock-salt; a mass of rock-salt.

With qualifying word.

rock salt refined for household use; = table salt n. at table, n. compounds 1d.

Salt, obtained in large crystals by slow evaporation; originally, from sea-water by the sun's heat.

Common salt (sodium chloride) occurring naturally as, or obtained mechanically from, a mineral deposit. Cf. halite, n.

salt upon salt: see quot. 1748. Obsolete.

A salt obtained by mining, esp. rock salt. Also: salt (or a salt) occurring naturally as a mineral.

Common salt obtained by the evaporation of seawater. See salt, n.1 1.

sea salt from France.

(Meaning obscure.)

a deposit of salt on the outside of a cooking vessel, caused by salt water leaking out from inside and being evaporated.

(a) salt in the form of a cake; (b) see quot. 1858.

salt found adhering to the trunk of Tamarix orientalis in edible quantity (Cent. Dict.); hence tamarisk-salt-tree.

‘a beautifully granulated kind of common salt‥formed out of the bittern or leach brine’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp.).

fine common salt in small crystals obtained by rapid evaporation of brine, used in salting butter.

that made from salt-springs, of finer quality than ordinary salt, so called from the vessels in which the brine is evaporated.

(in salt manufacturing) a large-grained form of salt produced by slowing the fires between Saturday and Monday (see quot. 1808).

Mining. = rock salt, n. Cf. salt-rock n. at salt, n.1 compounds 2. Obsolete.

Dried in a stove or oven. stoved salt n. see quot. 1892.

salt obtained by allowing sea water to evaporate in sunlight.

(see quot. 1884).

coarse salt (in quot. 1917 figurative).