n. A compound (NaCl) of chlorin with the metallic base of the alkali soda, one of the most abundantly disseminated and important of all substances.n. In chem., any acid in which one or more atoms of hydrogen have been replaced with metallic atoms or basic radicals; any base in which the hydrogen atoms have been more or less replaced by non-metallic atoms or acid radicals; also, the product of the direct union of a metallic oxid and an anhydrid.n. plural A salt (as Epsom salts, etc.) used as a medicine. See also smelling-salts.n. A marshy place flooded by the tide.n. A salt-cellar.n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a high decorative salt-cellar, intended to resemble those used in the middle ages. In modern delineations this is merely a covered vase.n. Seasoning; that which preserves a thing from corruption, or gives taste and pungency to it.n. Taste; smack; savor; flavor.n. Wit; piquancy; pungency; sarcasm: as, Attic salt (which see, under Attic).n. Modification; hence, allowance; abatement; reserve: as, to take a thing with a grain of salt (see phrase below).n. A bronzing material, the chlorid or butter of antimony, used in browning gun-barrels and other iron articles.n. Lecherous desire.n. A sailor, especially an experienced sailor.Having the taste or pungency of salt; impregnated with, containing, or a bounding in salt: as, salt water.Prepared or preserved with salt: as, salt beef; salt fish.Overflowed with or growing in salt water: as, salt grass or hay.Sharp; bitter; pungent.Costly; dear; expensive: as, he paid a salt price for it.Lecherous; salacious.A game something like hide-and-seek.To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt, or with a salt: as, to salt fish, beef, or pork.To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.To furnish with salt; feed salt to: as, to salt cows.In soap-making, to add salt to (the lye in the kettles) after saponification of the fatty ingredients, in order to separate the soap from the lye.In photography, to impregnate (paper, canvas, or other tissue) with a salt or mixture of salts in solution, which, when treated with other solutions, form new compounds in the texture.To make, as a freshman, drink salt water, by way of initiation, according to a university custom of the sixteenth century.To deposit salt, as a saline substance: as, the brine begins to salt.n. See sault.n. plural In glass manufacturing, same as glass-gall. See anatron, 1.n. plural A name given to mixed saline masses obtained by evaporating the water of mineral springs, or by artificially mixing the saline constituents of such springs in the proportions indicated by analysis of the water: as, Karlsbad salts, Vichy salts, etc.n. A salt which exhibits alkaline reaction or changes the red color of moist litmus-paper to blue, as does disodium orthophosphate.n. An impure common salt from India, colored by admixture with tannate of iron. See bitnoben.To enrich (a natural deposit) by artificial means, usually for the purpose of deceiving prospective purchasers. Thus a gold-mine is salted when powdered gold is shot into the rock with a gun; a sample is salted when metal, or rich ore, is mixed with it; a mineral spring is salted by the addition of salts; an oil-well by the addition of rich oils, etc.
