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Salt marsh   /sɔlt mɑrʃ/   Listen
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Salt  adj.  (compar. salter; superl. saltest)  
1.
Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears."
2.
Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
3.
Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. "I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me."
4.
Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory.
Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. (Western U.S.)
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 (Zool.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acraea which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear.
Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes.
Salt-marsh hen (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.
Salt-marsh terrapin (Zool.), 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."
Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.
Salt-water tailor. (Zool.) See Bluefish.






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"Salt marsh" Quotes from Famous Books



... green is green. They have never appeared to notice that there are dozens of tones in these colors. Nature is one of the greatest teachers of color harmony if we would but learn from her. Look at a salt marsh on an autumn day and notice the wonderful browns and yellows and golds in it, the reds and russets and touches of green in the woods on its edge, and the clear blue sky over all with the reflections in the little pools. ...
— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... screaming of the red-tailed hawks as they soar high overhead, and even the calls of the night heron that nest in the tall water maples by one of the wood ponds on our place, and the little green herons that nest beside the salt marsh. It is hard to tell just how much of the attraction in any bird-note lies in the music itself and how much in the associations. This is what makes it so useless to try to compare the bird songs of one country with those of another. A man who is worth anything can no more be entirely ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... 2 cows, says Walter, should yield a wey, (2 cwt) of cheese annually, and half a gallon of butter a week, 'if sorted out and fed in pasture of salt marsh;' but 'in pasture of wood or in meadows after mowing, or in stubble, it should take 3 cows for the same.' Twenty ewes, which it was then the custom to milk, fed in pasture of salt marsh, ought to yield the same as the 2 cows. A gallon of butter was worth 6d., and weighed ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... the transformation of lagoon into salt marsh, and marsh into cultivable soil, witnessed between the Spanish frontier, Perpignan ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... looked as good to another person. It was raining, the long stretches of salt marsh were windswept and brown and bleak. In the distance Cape Cod Bay showed gray and white against a leaden sky. The drops ran ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln



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