Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SALT
SALT, a.
- Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as, salt beef; salt water.
- Abounding with salt; as, a salt land. Jer. xvii.
- Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as, a salt marsh.
- Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as, salt grass or hay.
- Producing salt water; as, a salt spring.
- Lecherous; salacious. – Shak.
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