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1570 Lamb. MS. 807 in Brit. Mag. (1847) 32 366 My lord edward zou[ch]..hys matriculation ij^s…hys saltyng iiij^s. [In a later account spelt also ‘psalting’.]

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶4^v Having once knowen the price of an Admission, Salting, and Matriculation, with the intertayning of Freshmenne in the Rhetorike schooles.

a1644 Twyne in MS. Twyne (Bodl.) xxi. 753 The saltinge of fresh men which hath beene antiently and is yet at Oxford vsed at their first comminge, was perhaps borrowed or continued from this custome at Athens [see Gregory Naz. Orat. Fun. Basilii Magni xvi].

1693 J. Byrom Let. to Aubrey 15 Nov. in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. i. 167 'Twas..said, that the college [at Eton] held some lands by the custome of salting.

1748 W. Brownrigg Art of making Common Salt 69 When violent fires are used towards the end of the process, whilst the salt is forming, which they call the time of salting.

1856 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 21 Feb. 2/5 The best yield I have seen is eighteen cents to the pan, and this was without any ‘salting’.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 164 When it was discovered that those lumps were melted half dollars and hardly melted at that, a painful case of ‘salting’ was apparent.

1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 886/2 The traffic in stolen and spurious diamonds, and the nefarious practice known as ‘salting’.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 376 Any..change in the number of grains to the ounce of salting in an emulsion or in a developer.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 3/4 Farrell and others pointed out that ‘salting’..along nine miles of river shore would be pointless and profitless.

1951 Times 13 Dec. 4/6 ——, works manager, of Malvern, Johannesburg, was found Guilty at the Rand criminal sessions to-day on two counts of falsitas in the ‘salting’ (fraudulent enrichment) of the basal and leader reef third deflection core samples of the Erdeel 5 mine.

1972 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 June 5/3 (heading) Cutler denies nickel salting.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 332 Chloride of potassium cannot be substituted for chloride of sodium in salting out.

1905 Jrnl. Physiol. 32 329 The only method which, according to our present knowledge, leaves proteids absolutely unaltered is that of ‘salting out’.

1926 R. Wright in Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 1203 The mutual lowering of solubility which takes place when an electrolyte and an organic substance are dissolved together in water..is the basis of the process of ‘salting out’ when an organic compound is driven out of aqueous solution by the addition of a salt. What may be termed ‘salting in’ is the reverse phenomenon, that is, a mutual increase in solubility of electrolyte and organic compound when added to the same solvent, which in this case is not pure water but aqueous alcohol.

1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) III. 286/2 The ‘salting out’ effect of electrolytes on hydrophilic colloids is due to their dehydrating action as well as to their power of neutralising the charge.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ii. 183 Salting out of charged silt particles by water of compensation currents.

1970 A. L. Lehninger Biochemistry vii. 133 Salts containing divalent ions..are far more effective at salting-in than salts such as NaCl, NH₄Cl, and KCl.

1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss I. 135 What Piece of salting Beef should be ordered from the Butcher.

?c1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 110 The fisher men..were obliged to bring in all the congress they took..to the kings salting house.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1021 After the cheeses have been properly salted..they are carried from the salting-house to the cheese-room.

1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 19 Inside the salting-house, companies of chattering and screaming females are building up pilchards to heights of four and five feet.

1719 Will of John Hirst A salting kitt.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. iii. 43 My mother was so afraid that we had not any salting-pan large enough. View more context for this quotation

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 214 A large, common, glazed salting-pan.

1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 34 in Farm-rep. When the cheeses are taken from the salting-presses, they are put on the shelf in the dairy for a day or two.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 59 The salting-room should be laid with flags.

1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin 82 Times from the saltin' shed..I scarce could drag my feet.

1961 N. Froud et al. tr. P. Montagné & A. Gottschalk Larousse Gastronomique 493/2 The fish is transported from the boat to the salting sheds.

1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 239 A salting trough which has a gutter round its edges, to drain away the brine.

1556 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 92 In the larder housse iij sowlting tobbes.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 254 A cellar where salted meat had been kept for a great length of time in a salting-tub.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. i. 13 A turf back and a salting tub, which stood on either side of the narrow exterior passage.

1856 T. F. Hardwich Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 3) 122 The Strength of the Salting Bath.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 205 Certain modifications of the salting solution.

1908 Essex Rev. 17 33 The mysterious salting-mounds known as ‘Redhills’ on the marshes of the Essex coasts.