saultedadj.
= salted adj. 4.
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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > resistant to disease, etc.
strongeOE
stalworthc1175
starka1250
stiff1297
stalworthyc1300
vigorousc1330
stoura1350
lustyc1374
marrowya1382
sturdyc1386
crank1398
robust1490
vigorious1502
stalwart1508
hardy1548
robustious1548
of force1577
rustical1583
marrowed1612
rustic1620
robustic1652
solid1741
refractory1843
salted1864
resistant1876
saulteda1879
a1879 A. K. Johnston London Geogr. (1880) 402 A ‘saulted’ horse, or one which has been bitten [by the tsetse fly] and has recovered.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 3/1 ‘Saulted horses’..are only claimed to be proof against ‘horse sickness’.
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