n
(obsolete) A salt inflorescence on marshes.
n
preservation of food by canning (or a similar earlier method using glass bottles)
n
A place where potash or pearl-ash is made.
n
A ceremonial herb bundle or perforated object used to sprinkle witch's water at the commencement of a ritual
n
(saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
n
(chiefly in the plural) Any of several inorganic salts sometimes added to bath water.
n
Salt obtained from seawater by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun.
adj
Treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.
n
(obsolete) A maker of crude potash, or black salts.
v
To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
n
(informal) Fresh water, in situations where it is rare or hard to obtain.
n
(obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
adj
(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
n
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
adj
Alternative form of briny [Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.]
adj
Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
n
(archaeology) burnt-clay remains associated with historical salt production.
n
The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
n
In Latin America, cleared land that has developed a secondary forest.
n
A sort of finely granulated salt formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
n
(historical) A small dish for holding salt.
n
(archaic, idiomatic) A long-lasting agreement.
adv
(idiomatic) With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.
v
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
n
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
adj
Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.
v
To preserve food using salt (and sometimes sodium nitrite)
adj
preserved by means of salt
v
(transitive) To cure (meat) by salting and drying it.
n
(now historical) A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
v
(transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
n
(archaic) A kind of liquid volatile soap made with rectified spirit of wine, oil of amber, sal ammoniac, etc. and used for various medicinal purposes.
n
Any salt produced from the juices of plants by crystallization.
n
The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates.
n
Nickname for a person with red hair.
n
Floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds.
v
(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
n
The act or practice of working with salt.
n
A form of rock salt from the Punjab region, sometimes pinkish in colour, used for seasoning food and for making decorative lamps etc.
v
(transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
n
A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
n
(US) A variety of edible salt with a large grain size and usually no additives.
n
(slang, humorous) A salt shaker.
n
(agriculture) The process of slowly churning milled oil crops such as olives, allowing droplets of oil to aggregate for more effective separation.
v
(ergative) To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
n
A block of salt enriched with minerals, licked by herd animals to supplement their diet.
n
Sodium chloride; table salt.
n
The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.
n
(idiomatic) A seasoned sailor, especially one who is hardy and forthright in manner.
adj
Of a body of water, of low salinity.
n
A building in which seawater is evaporated to make salt.
adj
Alternative form of pegassy [(soil science) Characterised by the presence of pegasse; peaty.]
n
(metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
n
A black homogeneous peat with a waxy lustre.
n
(anatomy) naevus flammeus
n
A place where potash is manufactured.
adj
Alternative form of pot-bound [(of a potted plant) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.]
n
A mixture of dried fragrant plant material, often in a decorative bowl, used to scent a room.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
n
(archaic) a tub in which the meat was powdered or salted; a salting tub, pickling tub or powdering trough.
adj
(UK, of crisps) Seasoned with salt but no other flavouring.
v
(transitive) To dry or smoke (meat, etc.)
n
A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
n
Salt used for deicing and anti-icing of roads.
n
Coarsely ground common salt.
n
Alternative spelling of rock salt [(mineralogy) The mineral halite.]
n
A building used for evaporation in salt manufacture.
n
(chemistry, obsolete) Salt.
n
(chemistry, obsolete) Rochelle salt
n
(historical) salt cellar
n
(archaic) A salt reddish substance obtained from vegetable ashes during potash manufacture.
n
A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.
n
A treatment with a salt solution.
n
A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
adv
With reference to salinity
adj
Having the form or appearance of salt or of a salt.
n
The addition of salt or brine.
adj
(chemistry, obsolete) Composed of salt and earth.
adj
(chemistry, obsolete) salted
n
A place where saltpetre occurs.
adj
That contains saltpetre
n
A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts.
n
(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To save or preserve (especially money) for future use.
n
(US) A flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences.
n
Alternative form of saltbox [A box for keeping salt in.]
n
(chemistry) A connection, typically containing a gel, between the two halves of an electrolytic cell.
n
A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.
n
Alternative form of saltchuck [(British Columbia, Washington, Pacific Northwest) Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.]
n
cod that has been dried and salted
n
(geology) An upwelling of crystalline rock salt and its aureole of deformed sediments.
n
A dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.
n
An arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
n
A hay made from any grass grown in salty or alkalli conditions.
n
(uncountable, US, obsolete, sailor's slang) salt beef
n
A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.
n
A block of salt, often enriched with other minerals, licked by herd animals to supplement their diet.
n
a boundary between brackish and fresh water between or within bodies of water.
n
(historical) A 24-day march in colonial India in 1930 to support the production of salt in seawater, against the British salt monopoly.
n
A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
n
Meat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation.
n
(by extension) Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
n
(chemistry, obsolete) Synonym of salt of sorrel
n
(idiomatic, archaic) A most worthy person.
v
(medicine, transitive) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
n
A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.
n
A kitchen utensil, in the form of a broad container with an open front, used for holding salt.
n
A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.
n
Seawater in the form of a fine mist or droplets.
n
A substance that tastes salty but contains less sodium than table salt (sodium chloride), or none at all.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see salt, the, mine.
n
any water containing dissolved salt; brine
n
A wedge-shaped intrusion of salt water underneath fresh water, typically in a nontidal estuary
n
Alternative form of saltworks [(plural only) A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.]
n
Alternative form of salt cellar [A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.]
n
Alternative form of salt water [any water containing dissolved salt; brine]
n
A box for keeping salt in.
n
Alternative form of salt cellar [A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.]
n
(British Columbia, Washington, Pacific Northwest) Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.
n
Alternative form of salt dome [(geology) An upwelling of crystalline rock salt and its aureole of deformed sediments.]
n
(archaeology) An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands.
n
A place for fish salting.
n
salt cod: dried and salted cod.
n
A large salt cellar formerly placed near the centre of the table, with the superior guests seated above it.
n
Alternative form of salt gland [a specialized gland, located near the eyes or nose of certain marine animals that secretes a liquid having a high salt content; it enables the animal to drink seawater without having to eliminate the excess salt through the kidneys]
n
A salt processing facility.
n
A saline deposit in the inland lakes of Mexico.
n
Alternative spelling of salt lick [A block of salt, often enriched with other minerals, licked by herd animals to supplement their diet.]
adv
In a salt way; tasting of salt.
n
The manufacture of salt.
n
Alternative form of salt marsh [A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.]
n
Alternative form of salt mine [Any mine used for the extraction of salt.]
n
A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
n
Alternative spelling of salt pan [Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.]
v
(US) Alternative spelling of saltpetre [(transitive) To treat with saltpetre.]
v
(transitive) To treat with saltpetre.
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to saltpetre.
n
Alternative spelling of salt shaker [A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.]
n
Alternative form of salt wedge [A wedge-shaped intrusion of salt water underneath fresh water, typically in a nontidal estuary]
n
(plural only) A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.
adj
(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
adj
(of a peat) Decomposed.
n
Alternative form of sal (“the tree”) [(chemistry, obsolete) Salt.]
n
(obsolete) salt water; brine
n
salt prepared by evaporating seawater.
adj
(cooking) salted with sea salt
v
(cooking, transitive) To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.
n
(less common) Alternative form of sea salt [salt prepared by evaporating seawater.]
n
(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
v
Synonym of sell ice to Eskimos
n
An expert in the use and selection of different types of salts.
n
Alternative form of sal (“the tree”) [(chemistry, obsolete) Salt.]
n
Any material used in this way.
n
An area of volcanic activity that gives off sulfurous steam.
v
(transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
adj
Moderately saline or salty.
n
(chemistry, archaic) A basic salt.
n
Sodium chloride, the salt most commonly used to season food at the table.
n
(historical) A cold infusion of tar in water, once used as a medicine for chest complaints.
v
(transitive) To season (food) with too little salt.
adj
(of a liquid) colourless and transparent like pure water
n
Salt that has been dried and calcined.
adj
Alternative form of whitish [Somewhat white, pale or almost white.]
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