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Salt
·noun Marshes flooded by the tide.
II. Salt ·noun Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
III. Salt ·noun Fi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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
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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
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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
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Salt
Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Glauber's salts
·- Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, sl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bay salt
·- Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the hea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Salt Sea
(Josh. 3:16). See DEAD [545]SEA.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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
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salt-lick
A saline spring, where animals resort for drink. See lick.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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.
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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
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salt-eel
A rope's-end cut from the piece for starting the homo delinquens.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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salt-junk
Navy salt beef. (See junk.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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salt-pits
Reservoirs to contain sea-water for the purpose of making salt.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Salt Sea
Or Dead Sea
[Sea, The Salt, THE SALT]
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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salt-water vegetables
In New York, a cant term for oysters and clams.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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boll of salt
two bushels. Northum.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Salt, City Of
the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the "wilderness." (Joshua 15:62) Mr. Robinson expr...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Salt, Valley Of
a valley in which occurred two memorable victories of the Israelite arms:
• That of David over the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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
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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.
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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose