A white crystalline substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste
“Beef and pork were covered in fine granules of salt. This was called dry-curing.”
Something used to add flavor to a dish
“Add a pinch of salt to perk up the flavor.”
A sharpness or piquancy in flavor or nature, sometimes figuratively
“Is it perhaps because she is very young that there is no salt to her words nor fire in her glances?”
A mariner or sailor who mans a ship
“It was bravery, seamanship, and those peculiar qualities which an old salt possesses that made him great on the quarter deck.”
Compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered
One's willingness to undertake potentially hazardous endeavours
Food as a means of maintaining health or life
Any agent, natural or artificial that acts to preserve, especially when added to food
The fact of supporting one's living through work or one's income
Impregnated with, treated with, or tasting of salt
“She closed her eyes, smelling the salt sea air, feeling the wind in her hair.”
Characterized by the use of wit or sarcasm to offend
Maritime or aquatic in character, nature or use
To give or add flavor to by adding salt
“Never salt the dish until you have tasted it.”
To preserve by adding salt
“He would salt the meat to preserve it, pack it into half sections of hollow logs, and cover it with bark and heavy stones.”
To scatter or intersperse among other things
“Donnelly, setting an example for future Atlantologists, was clever enough to salt his tale with the scientific fashions of the day.”
To intersperse among or between other things
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