salt

• white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
• preserve with salt
• A sailor
• add salt to
• the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
• a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
• negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries´ stock of nuclear weapons
• sprinkle as if with salt
• add zest or liveliness to
• (of speech) painful or bitter
• Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities
• The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles
• Hence, flavor
• Hence, also, piquancy
• A dish for salt at table
• The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base
• Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error
• Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber´s salt
• Marshes flooded by the tide
• Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water
• Fig.: Bitter
• Fig.: Salacious
• To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt
• To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber
• To deposit salt as a saline solution
• The act of leaping or jumping
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Spain in Catalonia
• Residential area (city, town, village) in France in Rhone-Alpes
• Residential area (city, town, village) in United Kingdom in St. Helens
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Italy in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Jordan in Al Balqa'
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Norway in Sogn og Fjordane

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