treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
sailor'shoice sailors choice Haemulon parra | a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico |
pinfish sailor'shoice squirrelfish Lagodon rhomboides | similar to sea bream, small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States |
boater leghorn Panama Panama hat sailor skimmer straw hat | a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
prolonge knot sailor's breastplate | a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage |
sailor cap | a cap worn by sailors |
sailor suit | a boy's ensemble, copied from a sailor's uniform |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
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 |
Salt Lake City capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir Kavir Desert Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
Sinbad the Sailor Sinbad | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages |
bluejacket navy man sailor sailor boy | a serviceman in the navy |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
sailor crewman | any member of a ship's crew |
salter salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
William IV Sailor King | King of England and Ireland, son of George III who ascended the throne after a long naval career (-) |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
salt reed grass Spartina cynosuroides | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows |
salt marsh mallow Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |
salt tree Halimodendron halodendron Halimodendron argenteum | spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms |
salt depletion | loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance |
dibasic salt | a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule |
sodium chloride common salt | a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl) |
halite rock salt | naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride |
Rochelle salt Rochelle salts potassium sodium tartrate | a double salt used in Seidlitz powder, acts as a cathartic |
salt | a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
double salt | a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization |
bile salt | a salt of bile acid and a base, functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids |
Glauber's salt Glauber's salts | (NaSO.HO) a colorless salt used as a cathartic |