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. |
Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. |
Clay (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body |
Clay (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay. |
Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. |
Clay-brained (a.) Stupid. |
salt () Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities |
Glauber's salt () Alt. of Glauber's salts |
Grey (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography). |
Hair-salt (n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Monsel's salt () A basic sulphate of iron |
Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments. |
Saliferous (a.) Producing, or impregnated with, salt. |
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. |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
grey market gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
grey skate gray skate Raja batis | common European skate used as food |
grey kingbird gray kingbird petchary Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis | a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America, similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird |
Canada jay grey jay gray jay camp robber whisker jack Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
catbird grey catbird gray catbird Dumetella carolinensis | North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing |
ern erne grey sea eagle gray sea eagle European sea eagle white-tailed sea eagle Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
great grey owl great gray owl Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
greyhen grayhen grey hen gray hen heath hen | female black grouse |
Hungarian partridge grey partridge gray partridge Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
African grey African gray Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
giant kangaroo great grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
grey whale gray whale devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
timber wolf grey wolf gray wolf Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
grey fox gray fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus | dark grey American fox, from Central America through southern United States |
grey lemming gray lemming red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
eastern grey squirrel eastern gray squirrel cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
western grey squirrel western gray squirrel Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
grey gray | horse of a light gray or whitish color |
grey snapper gray snapper mangrove snapper Lutjanus griseus | found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida |
mullet grey mullet gray mullet | freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body, found worldwide |
grey flounder gray flounder Etropus rimosus | flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico |
clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
grey gray | clothing that is a grey color, he was dressed in grey |
mold mould molding moulding modeling clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
gray grayness grey greyness | a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black |
ash grey ash gray silver silver grey silver gray | a light shade of grey |
charcoal charcoal grey charcoal gray oxford grey oxford gray | a very dark grey color |
dapple-grey dapple-gray dappled-grey dappled-gray | grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings |
iron-grey iron-gray | the color of freshly broken cast iron |
tattletale grey tattletale gray | a greyish white |
cadaver corpse stiff clay remains | the dead body of a human being, the cadaver was intended for dissection, the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse, the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river, honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay |
grey matter gray matter grey substance gray substance substantia grisea | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers, forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
grey area gray area | an intermediate area, a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other |
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 |
mullet grey mullet gray mullet | highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
grey sole gray sole | greyish-white flesh of a flatfish |
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 |