Bay salt () Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun |
Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine. |
salt () Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities |
Glauber's salt () Alt. of Glauber's salts |
Hair-salt (n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Monsel's salt () A basic sulphate of iron |
Salt (n.) 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. |
Salt (n.) Hence, flavor |
Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy |
Salt (n.) A dish for salt at table |
Salt (n.) A sailor |
Salt (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base |
Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error |
Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt. |
Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide. |
Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt |
Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Bitter |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Salacious |
Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt |
Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. |
Salt (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution |
Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping |
Salt-green (a.) Sea-green in color. |
Salt rheum () A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema. |
Sea salt () Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation. |
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall (n.) A defense |
Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color |
Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes |
Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). |
Wall-eye (n.) The alewife |
Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Wall-plat (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard drywall dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket wall plug electric outlet electrical outlet outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
wall paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt table salt common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
Wall Street the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
Wailing Wall | a wall in Jerusalem, sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation, its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon |
Hadrian's Wall | an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the nd century, marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain |
Wall Street Wall St. | a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located, symbol of American finance |