salt

Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […]

1430, Thomas Austin, editor, Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 (Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 11:

Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]

Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.

1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 24:

Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die.

2013, Bear Grylls, True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life, →ISBN, page 9:

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

(uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:

I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).

(cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.

A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

(obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

Attic salt

(obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.

I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.

1664 September 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 9th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:

(obsolete, countable) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

(historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.

Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

(figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.

There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.

(Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.

(UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

en-noun

salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)

Bislama: sol

Tok Pisin: sol

марскі́ воўк m (marskí voŭk, literally “sea wolf”)

мо́рски вълк m (mórski vǎlk, literally “sea wolf”)

морско́й волк m (morskój volk, literally “sea wolf”)

морськи́й вовк m (morsʹkýj vovk, literally “sea wolf”)

sůl

additional bytes inserted into an encryption

PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".


salt

Why the Sea is Salt

After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 97:

salt beef

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.

a salt marsh

Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.

salt grass

Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.

a salt mine

The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […].

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

(figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.

It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]

1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153:

(figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

(colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.

en-adj

salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

more salt (comparative)
most salt (superlative)

salí

related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use


salt

to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

The brine begins to salt.

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.

(nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

(mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.

The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.

1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417:

(transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.

The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting.

1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:

They salted the document with arcane language.

These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.

1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page 154:

(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.

(military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.

(wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

en-verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

salts (present singular third-person)
salting (participle present)
salted (participle past)
salted (past)


salt

[…] he hath the skill to draw
Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
More wanton salts from this brave promontory,
Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;

1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67

(obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.