Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for
evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece
of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.
-- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium
sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the
manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process. -- Salt fish. (a)
Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been
salted and dried for food. (b) A marine fish. -- Salt garden, an
arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production
of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. --
Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a
salimeter. -- Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] -- Salt junk, hard salt
beef for use at sea. [Slang] -- Salt lick. See Lick, n. -- Salt marsh,
grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. -- Salt-marsh
caterpillar (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acræa which
is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops.
Called also woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear,
under Woolly. -- Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite
herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt
marshes. -- Salt-marsh hen (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.
-- Salt- marsh terrapin (Zoöl.), the diamond- back. -- Salt mine, a
mine where rock salt is obtained. -- Salt pan. (a) A large pan used for
making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where
salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works. --
Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or made. -- Salt rising, a kind
of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.] -- Salt
raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from
the sea. -- Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.] -- Salt spring,
a spring of salt water. -- Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree
(Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian
region and in Siberia. -- Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as
that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also,
tears.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water
blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here.
Shak.
-- Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner. -- Salt-water tailor. (Zoöl.)
See Bluefish.
Salt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salted; p. pr. & vb. n. Salting.] 1. To
sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in
brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt
cattle.
2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the
preservation of the timber.
To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to
deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant] -- To salt away, To salt
down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs,
etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.
Salt (?), v. i. To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine
begins to salt.
Salt (?), n. [L. saltus, fr. salire to leap.] The act of leaping or
jumping; a leap. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Sal"tant (?), a. [L. saltans, p. pr. of saltare to dance, v. intens.
fr. salire to leap: cf. F. sautant. See Sally, v.] 1. Leaping; jumping;
dancing.
2. (Her.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied
especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat,
greyhound, monkey, etc.
||Sal`ta*rel"la (?), n. See Saltarello.
||Sal`ta*rel"lo (?), n. [It., fr. L. saltare to jump.] A popular
||Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets,
||but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.