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• Salt

  ·noun Marshes flooded by the tide. II. Salt ·noun Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. III. Salt ·noun Fi...

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• Salt

  Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, "clean;" in marg. of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• salt

  Lecherous. A salt bitch: a bitch at heat, or proud bitch. Salt eel; a rope's end, used to correct bo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• salt

  , or old salt. A weather-beaten sailor. One of the old seamen who not only have known but have fel...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Salt

  Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an...

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• Bay salt

  ·- Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the hea...

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• Cat-salt

  ·noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine. ...

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• Epsom salt

  ·- Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; — originally prepared by boiling down the miner...

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• Glauber's salt

  ·- ·Alt. of Glauber's salts. ...

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• Hair-salt

  ·noun A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. ...

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• Monsel's salt

  ·- A basic sulphate of iron; — so named from Monsel, a Frenchman. ...

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• Salt rheum

  ·- A popular name, ·esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for tho...

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• Salt-green

  ·adj Sea-green in color. ...

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• Sea salt

  ·- Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation. ...

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• Salt Sea

  (Josh. 3:16). See DEAD [545]SEA. ...

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• salt-bush

  n. and adj. the wild alkalineherb or shrub, growing on the interior plains of Australia,on which ho...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• salt-lick

  A saline spring, where animals resort for drink. See lick. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• salt lick

  (LICK) 1) In America, a place where the beasts of the forest lick for salt at salt springs. Webster...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• salt-box

  A case for keeping a temporary supply of cartridges for the immediate use of the great guns; it is u...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• salt-eel

  A rope's-end cut from the piece for starting the homo delinquens. ...

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• salt-junk

  Navy salt beef. (See junk.) ...

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• Salt Sea

  Or Dead Sea [Sea, The Salt, THE SALT] ...

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• Salt, Valley of

  A place where it is said David smote the Syrians (2 Sam. 8:13). This valley (the' Arabah) is between...

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• salt-water vegetables

  In New York, a cant term for oysters and clams. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• boll of salt

  two bushels. Northum. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Salt, City Of

  the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the "wilderness." (Joshua 15:62) Mr. Robinson expr...

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• Salt, Valley Of

  a valley in which occurred two memorable victories of the Israelite arms: • That of David over the ...

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• Sea, The Salt

  the usual and perhaps the most ancient name for the remarkable lake which to the western world is no...

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• Salt, The city of

  One of the cities of Judah (Josh. 15:62), probably in the Valley of Salt, at the southern end of the...

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• old-man salt-bush

  Atriplex nummularium,Lindl. See Salt-Bush. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 118: «On...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to row up salt river

  is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• salt-cat, or gate

  a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose