Definition of Salt

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Definition of Salt

Salt

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

Marshes flooded by the tide.

Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

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.

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

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Salt Quotations

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Business is the salt of life.
Voltaire

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Herman Melville

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante Alighieri

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Salt Translations

salt in Afrikaans is sout
salt in Danish is salt
salt in Dutch is zouten
salt in Finnish is suola
salt in French is sel
salt in German is Salz
salt in Italian is sale
salt in Latin is sal
salt in Norwegian is salt
salt in Portuguese is sal
salt in Swedish is salta, salt

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