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Salt

noun

A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food. Synonyms: common salt, table salt.

Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons. Synonym: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: salinity, saltiness.

verb

(past & past part. salted; pres. part. salting)

Add salt to.

Sprinkle as if with salt.

Add zest or liveliness to.

Preserve with salt.

adjective

(compar. salter; superl. saltest)

(of speech) painful or bitter. "A salt apology"

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"Salt" Quotes from Famous Books

... salt was sent to Tippecanoe, the Prophet refused to accept it, and sent word to the Governor that the Americans had dealt unfairly with the Indians, and that friendly relations could be renewed only by the nullification of ...

— Four American Indians - King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola • Edson L. Whitney

... himself—met with the drummer-boy, was about a fortnight after the little chap had bettered enough to be allowed a short walk out of doors, which he took, if you please, in full regimentals. There never was a soldier so proud of his dress. His own suit had shrunk a brave bit with the salt water; but into ordinary frock an' corduroys he declared he would not get, not if he had to go naked the rest of his life; so my father—being a good-natured man, and handy with the needle—turned ...

— The Roll-Call Of The Reef • A. T. Quiller-Couch (AKA "Q.")

... display of rare curios collected by a connoisseur exclusively for the satisfaction of his taste. A little disorder naturally, in this household equipped at hazard, as choice things could be picked up. The wonderful cruet-stand had lost its stoppers. The chipped salt-cellar allowed its contents to escape on the table-cloth, and at every moment you would hear, "Why! what is become of the mustard-pot?" "What has happened to this fork?" This embarrassed de Gery a little on account of the young mistress of the house, who for her part took ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... describing it thus:—"The more of the humour of life it has, the more of the spirit of life abounds in that life." Though truly this vital radio-active force lacks all fitting name. To material science radium, or radium chloride, is a minute salt crystal, so rare and costly to obtain that it may be counted as about three thousand times the price of gold in the market. But of the action of PURE radium, the knowledge of ordinary scientific students is nil. They know that an infinitely small spark of radium ...

— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... still under the shock of his downfall. But a few short months ago he had ruled in this place as king. Now he was patronizingly presented to the snub-nosed, idiot usurper by Felicien Garbure. His friend, Berzelius Paragot! Nom de Dieu! And he was assigned a humble place below the salt. Verily the world ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

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