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 |
Pillar
(n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure |
Pillar
(n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office |
Pillar
(n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. |
Pillar
(n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns. |
Pillar
(a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs |
Pillar-block
(n.) See under Pillow. |
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. |
Water pillar
() A waterspout. |
treadmill
salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
column
pillar a | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
| column pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
| pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
| pillar box | a red pillar-shaped letter box |
| 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 |
| pillar | a fundamental principle or practice, science eroded the pillars of superstition |
| pillar of Islam | (Islam) one of the five religious obligations accepted by all Muslims |
| 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 |
| Pillars of Hercules | the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar, according to legend they were formed by Hercules |
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 |
mariner
seaman
tar
Jack-tar
Jack
old salt
seafarer
gob
sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
pillar
mainstay | a prominent supporter, he is a pillar of the community |
salter
salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
tower of strength
pillar of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort |
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 |
column tower
pillar | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, the test tube held a column of white powder, a tower of dust rose above the horizon, a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite |
| 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 |
| microcosmic salt | a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxides |