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<A NAME="saltfree">
<B>salt-free, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing no salt or very little salt; low in sodium chloride. <BR> <I>Ex. Doctors prescribe a salt-free diet for patients with certain types of heart or kidney disease.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltgland">
<B>salt gland,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gland found in various animals, especially aquatic birds, that secretes the excess salt taken into the bloodstream by drinking seawater and eating marine animals. </DL>
<A NAME="saltglaze">
<B>saltglaze, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a glaze produced on ceramic ware by putting salt in the kilns during firing. <DD><I>adj. </I> having a saltglaze. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a pair of saltglaze plates painted with two scenes of a gallant and a young woman in a garden (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltgrass">
<B>salt grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various grasses that grow in land having large salt or alkali deposits. Some kinds are used for fodder and hay. </DL>
<A NAME="salthay">
<B>salt hay,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> hay consisting of salt grass, used for food and bedding, and as a mulch. </DL>
<A NAME="salthorse">
<B>salt horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical Slang.) salted beef. <BR> <I>Ex. There is nothing left us but salt horse and sea-biscuit (Herman Melville).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltier">
<B>saltier, </B>noun. <B>=saltire.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saltigrade">
<B>saltigrade, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having limbs modified for leaping, as certain insects and spiders. </DL>
<A NAME="saltily">
<B>saltily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a salty manner. </DL>
<A NAME="saltimbanco">
<B>saltimbanco, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mountebank; quack. </DL>
<B>salting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of a person or thing that salts. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) a tract of land overflowed at times by the sea. <BR> <I>Ex. At the bridge of the lower saltings the cattle gather and blare (Rudyard Kipling).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltire">
<B>saltire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) an ordinary in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross, formed by the crossing of a bend and a bend sinister. <BR> <I>Ex. The present British Union Jack dates only from 1801, when the saltire of St. Patrick was added (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>salt junk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical Slang.) hard salt meat. </DL>
<A NAME="saltlake">
<B>salt lake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a saltwater lake. Salt lakes are found in areas of large salt deposits and are often saltier than oceans. </DL>
<A NAME="saltless">
<B>saltless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without salt; unsalted. <BR> <I>Ex. saltless cheese, saltless soil.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) lacking piquancy, interest, or liveliness; flat; insipid. <BR> <I>Ex. The days went by, saltless, lifeless (D. C. Murray).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltlick">
<B>salt lick,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place where natural salt is found on the surface of the ground and where animals go to lick it up; lick. <BR> <I>Ex. [Moose] also like to roll in mud holes and eat the salty earth or salt licks (Victor H. Cahalane).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a block of salt set out, especially in a pasture, for animals to lick, in order to provide necessary salt in the diet. </DL>
<A NAME="saltly">
<B>saltly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> with a salt taste or smell. </DL>
<A NAME="saltmarsh">
<B>salt marsh,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a marsh regularly overflowed or flooded by salt water, as by the action of winds or tides. <BR> <I>Ex. Most types of environment are to be found ... an exposed cliff-beach, salt marsh and tidal mud, and a shingle spit (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltmarshcaterpillar">
<B>salt-marsh caterpillar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the hairy larva of an arctiid moth that feeds on various grasses, especially the salt grasses of the New England seacoast. </DL>
<A NAME="saltmine">
<B>salt mine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mine from which salt is extracted. <DD><B> 2. </B>a place or situation of drudgery or enslavement. <BR> <I>Ex. This is not a prep school for the industry salt mine (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltmouth">
<B>saltmouth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wide-mouthed bottle suitable for holding solid chemicals. </DL>
<A NAME="saltness">
<B>saltness, </B>noun. <B>=saltiness.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saltoftheearth">
<B>salt of the earth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the best people. <BR> <I>Ex. He has been driven to imagining that his sole solidarity lies with a small number of superior persons who have been appointed as the salt of the earth (Edmund Wilson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltpan">
<B>salt pan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, shallow vessel in which salt water is evaporated to yield salt. <DD><B> 2. </B>a shallow depression in the ground in which salt water is evaporated in salt making. <DD><B> 3. </B>any dried-up salt lake or marsh, especially in Africa. <BR> <I>Ex. The waterholes of the salt pans are almost permanently ringed by zebra and wildebeest (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltpans">
<B>saltpans, </B>noun pl. <B>=saltworks.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saltpeter">
<B>saltpeter</B> or <B>saltpetre, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a salty, white mineral, used in making gunpowder, in preserving meat, and in medicine; naturally occurring potassium nitrate; niter. <DD><B> 2. </B>a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate, used as a source of nitrogen in fertilizing soil; Chile saltpeter. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=calcium nitrate.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="saltpit">
<B>salt pit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pit where salt is mined. </DL>
<A NAME="saltpork">
<B>salt pork,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fatty back or middle parts of a pig, cured with salt or in brine. Salt pork is used to flavor many dishes. </DL>
<A NAME="saltrheum">
<B>salt rheum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a skin eruption, as eczema. <BR> <I>Ex. Salt rheum ... has long baffled the art of the most experienced physicians (Canadian Courant).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salts">
<B>salts, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>salt.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="saltsage">
<B>salt sage,</B> <B>=shadscale.</B></DL>
<A NAME="saltshaker">
<B>saltshaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a container for salt, with a perforated top through which the salt is sprinkled. </DL>
<A NAME="saltspoon">
<B>salt spoon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small spoon, usually having a round, deep bowl, used in taking salt at the table. </DL>
<A NAME="salttree">
<B>salt tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a leguminous tree with white, pinnate leaves, growing in central Asia. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in India) a species of tamarisk, the twigs of which are frequently covered with a slight efflorescence of salt. </DL>
<A NAME="saltus">
<B>saltus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tus.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a breach of continuity, as in a process of reasoning; leap from premises to conclusion. </DL>
<A NAME="saltwater">
<B>saltwater, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>consisting of or containing salt water. <BR> <I>Ex. a saltwater solution.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>living in the sea or in water like seawater. <BR> <I>Ex. a saltwater fish.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>taking place or working on the sea. <BR> <I>Ex. a saltwater fisherman, a saltwater sport.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saltwatercrocodile">
<B>saltwater crocodile,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crocodile of Southeast Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, averaging a length of 12 to 14 feet. </DL>
<A NAME="saltwatertaffy">
<B>saltwater taffy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a kind of taffy sold at seaside resorts, originally containing a very small amount of salt water as an ingredient. </DL>
<A NAME="saltwell">
<B>salt well,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a well sunk, usually by boring, in order to procure brine. </DL>
<A NAME="saltworks">
<B>saltworks, </B>noun pl. or sing.<DL COMPACT><DD> an establishment for obtaining salt in commercial quantities by evaporation of naturally salty water, as that in the sea. </DL>
<A NAME="saltwort">
<B>saltwort, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several plants that grow on beaches, in salt marshes, or in regions of alkaline soil: <DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various plants of the goosefoot family, especially a prickly plant used in making soda ash (barilla). <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several glassworts. </DL>
<A NAME="salty">
<B>salty, </B>adjective, <B>saltier,</B> <B>saltiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>containing salt; tasting of salt. Sweat and tears are salty. <BR> <I>Ex. What there is [of underground water] proves mostly too salty for human use continuously (R. N. Elston).</I> (SYN) saline, briny. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>to the point; terse, witty, and a bit improper. <BR> <I>Ex. a salty remark.</I> (SYN) racy. <DD><B> b. </B>that manifests itself in salty language. <BR> <I>Ex. a salty sense of humor.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or suggestive of the sea or life at sea. </DL>
<A NAME="salubrious">
<B>salubrious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> favorable or conducive to good health; healthful. <BR> <I>Ex. a salubrious diet. Their salubrious effects, which include the relief of pain ... are seldom more than palliative and almost never permanent (New Yorker).</I> (SYN) wholesome, salutary. adv. <B>salubriously.</B> noun <B>salubriousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="salubrity">
<B>salubrity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> salubrious quality or condition; healthfulness. <BR> <I>Ex. The salubrity of their walk is sadly tinctured by carbon monoxide (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="saluki">
<B>saluki, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any hunting dog of what is probably the oldest known breed of dogs, familiar to the ancient Egyptians and Arabs and the "dog" of the Bible; gazelle hound. It resembles the greyhound in build and has short, silky hair and fringed ears and tail. <BR> <I>Ex. Excavation of the Sumerian Empire of 7,000 to 6,000 B.C. has found evidence of ... the saluki (Cape Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="salus">
<B>Salus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Roman Mythology.) the goddess of health and prosperity, identified with the Greek Hygeia. </DL>
<A NAME="saluspopulisupremalexesto">
<B>salus populi suprema lex esto,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) let the people's welfare be the supreme law (the motto of Missouri). </DL>
