Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SALT'CAT, n.

A lump or heap of salt, made at the saltworks, which attracts pigeons. Mortimer.

SALT'-CEL-LAR, n. [salt and cellar.]

A small vessel used for holding salt on the table. – Swift.

SALT'ED, pp.

Sprinkled, seasoned or impregnated with salt.

SALT'ER, n.

1. One who salts; one who gives or applies salt.
2. One that sells salt. Camden.

SALT'ERN, n.

A salt-work; a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation. – Encyc.

SALT'IER, n. [Fr. sautoir, from sauter, L. salto, to leap.]

In heraldry, one of the eight greater ordinaries; a St. Andrew's cross. – E. H. B.]

SAL'TI-GRADE, a. [L. saltus and gradior.]

Leaping; formed for leaping.

SAL'TI-GRADE, n.

The name of a family of spiders, who leap to seize their prey.

SALT'IN-BAN-CO, n. [Fr. saltimbanque; It. saltare in banco, to leap on the bench, to mount on the bench.]

A mountebank; a quack. [Not in use.] – Brown.

SALT'ING, n.

The act of sprinkling or impregnating with salt.

SALT'ING, ppr.

Sprinkling, seasoning or impregnating with salt.

SALT'ISH, a.

Somewhat salt; tinctured or impregnated moderately with salt.

SALT'ISH-LY, adv.

With a moderate degree of saltness.

SALT'ISH-NESS, n.

A moderate degree of saltness.

SALT'LESS, a.

Destitute of salt; insipid.

SALT'LY, adv.

With taste of salt; in a salt manner.

SALT-MARSH, n.

Grass land subject to the overflow of salt or sea-water.

SALT'-MINE, n.

A mine where fossil salt is obtained.

SALT'NESS, n.

1. The quality of being impregnated with salt; as, the saltness of sea-water or of provisions.
2. Taste of salt.

SALT'-PAN, or SALT'-PIT, n.

A pan, basin or pit where salt is obtained or made. – Bacon. Woodward.

SALT-PE'TER, or SALT-PE'TRE, n. [salt and Gr. πετρος, a stone.]

A neutral salt formed by the nitric acid in combination with potassa, and hence denominated nitrate of potassa. It is found native in the East Indies, in Spain, in Naples and other places. It is also found on walls sheltered from rain, and is extracted by lixiviation from the earths under cellars, stables, barns, &c. Hooper. Lavoisir.

SALT-PE'TROUS, a.

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. Med. Repos.

SALT-RHEUM', n.

A vague and indefinite popular name applied to almost all the non-febrile cutaneous eruptions, which are common among adults, except ring-worm and itch.

SALTS, n.

1. The salt water of rivers entering from the ocean. – S. Carolina.
2. Cathartic medicines.

SALT'-WA-TER, n.

Water impregnated with salt; seawater.