salt¹ /sölt or solt/

1. Chloride of sodium, occurring naturally as a mineral (rock salt) and in solution in seawater, saltwater springs, etc, used as a condiment and preservative
2. A saltcellar
3. A compound in which metal atoms or electropositive radicals replace one or more of the replaceable hydrogen atoms of an acid (chem)
4. Piquancy, liveliness
5. Dry or pungent wit
6. A salt marsh or salting
7. An influx of salt water
8. A sailor, esp an experienced sailor
9. (in pl) smelling salts
10. (in pl) Epsom salts or other salt or mixture of salts used medicinally, esp as a purgative
11. Money collected at montem (qv)

1. Containing salt
2. Tasting of salt
3. Seasoned or cured with salt
4. Covered over with, or immersed in, salt water
5. Growing in salt soil
6. Inhabiting salt water
7. Pungent
8. Expensive, dear (archaic sl)

1. To sprinkle, season, preserve or impregnate with salt
2. To season, or add piquancy to
3. To acclimatize
4. To assign an excessive value to or in (slang)
5. To add gold, ore, etc to (a mine, etc) in order to give a false appearance of riches (mining sl)
6. To immunize (an animal) by inoculation, etc (old)

saltˈed adjective

saltˈer noun

1. A person who makes or deals in salt or salted foods
2. A dealer in gums, dyes, etc, a drysalter

saltˈily adverb

saltine /söl-tēnˈ/ noun (N American)

A crisp salted biscuit

saltˈiness noun

saltˈing noun

1. The act of preserving, seasoning, etc with salt
2. A meadow flooded by the tides (cf ing)
3. The montem (qv) ceremony

saltˈish adjective

saltˈishly adverb

saltˈishness noun

saltˈless adjective

saltˈly adverb

saltˈness noun

saltˈy adjective

1. Tasting of, containing, etc salt
2. Piquant, racy, witty

salt bath noun (metallurgy)

A bath of molten salts in which steel is heated, hardened or tempered

saltˈbox noun

1. A box for holding salt, esp an old-fashioned one with a sloping clapper lid, once used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music
2. A house with one fewer storey at the back than at the front and a gable roof that slopes steeply at the rear (US)

saltˈbush noun

Any shrubby plant (genus Atriplex) of the goosefoot family, of arid regions

saltˈ-butter adjective (Shakespeare)

Fed on nothing better than salt butter, gross

salt cake noun

Impure sodium sulphate

saltˈcat noun

A salt mixture given as a digestive to pigeons

saltˈcellar noun

1. (OFr saliere, from L salārium, from sāl salt) a container for holding salt when used as a condiment
2. A depression behind the collarbone

saltˈchuck noun (Can)

A body of salt water

saltˈ-cote noun (obsolete)

A building where salt is prepared for use as a condiment

salt dome or plug noun (geology)

A diapir formed by a column of rock salt forced up by pressure through upper rock stata

salt eel see under eel

saltˈ-fat or (non-standard) saltˈ-foot noun

1. Formerly, a large saltcellar marking the class boundary at table
2. A pickling-tub

saltˈfish noun (W Indies)

Salted cod

• a tall man of his hands
• at all points
• at a loose end
• at a loss
• at a low ebb
• ataman
• atamans
• at anchor
• at an end
• at an inch
• at any cost
• at any hand
• at any price
• at any rate
• atap
• at a pinch
• at a point
• at a premium
• at a price
• ataps
• at a push
• ataractic
• ataractics
• at a rate of knots
• ataraxia