Word Finder - salt

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

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

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A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

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A sailor (also old salt).

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Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.

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

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Flavour; taste; seasoning.

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Piquancy; wit; sense.

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Attic salt

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A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

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Skepticism and common sense.

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Indignation; outrage; arguing.

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To add salt to.

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

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To deposit salt as a saline solution.

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The brine begins to salt.

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

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

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To include colorful language in.

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

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Salty; salted.

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salt beef;  salt tears

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Saline.

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a salt marsh;  salt grass

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Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

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

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Bitter; sharp; pungent.

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Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

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Costly; expensive.

You can get that salt shaker now, Cynthia.

There are mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.

Of late years the function of the collector is discharged in some forms of apparatus by a salt of radium.

I dropped the salt shaker behind the stove.

That and the time when I was trying to get the salt shaker from behind the stove.

In 1771 Thomas Jefferson described a " burning spring " in the Kanawha Valley, and when wells were drilled for salt brine near Charleston petroleum and natural gas were found here before there was any drilling for oil in Pennsylvania.

You have to take some of Mayer's remarks with a pinch of salt.

The lagoons are believed to act as purifying pans in which the greater part of the salt in the water is precipitated.

Cynthia slammed the shaker on the counter, spraying salt on the floor.

Jn 1841 natural gas was found with salt brine in a well on the Kanawha, and was used as a fuel to evaporate the salt water.

Brine wells have been mentioned above; the salt industry is still carried on in Mason county, and in 1908 145,157 bbls.

It is also a considerable market for horses, cattle and grain, and there is a little boat-building and salt and sail-cloth manufacture.

Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.

The term sailor is used in a very wide sense and includes all persons earning their living by navigation on the sea, or in the harbours or roadsteads, or on salt lakes or canals within the maritime domain of the state, or on rivers and canals as far as the tide goes up or sea-going ships can pass.

The village appeared to me a great news room; and on one side, to support it, as once at Redding & Company's on State Street, they kept nuts and raisins, or salt and meal and other groceries.

Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned it and did not welcome the French with bread and salt, nor bring them the keys of the city.

The wound opened again and the salt he threw into it drew a sharp response from her.

Despite her fury and fear, she found his presence oddly calming, like sitting in a spa surrounded by incense with her feet in a salt bath.

The liquid is precipitated by alcohol, and the washed and dried precipitate is then dissolved in water and allowed to stand, when the salt separates in dark-coloured crystals.

Salt springs exist in the neighbourhood, and to the south there are two small lakes, Zonar and Rincon, which abound in fish.

The government monopolies of opium and salt were then for the first time placed upon a remunerative basis.

Sugarmaking, the distillation of rice-spirit, silk-weaving, fishing and the preparation of a fish-sauce (nuoc-mam) made from decayed fish, and the manufacture of salt from sea-water and of lime are carried on in many localities.

A salt basin underlies the city, and, next to the lumber industry, the salt industry was the first to be developed, but its importance has dwindled; the product value in 1905 being $20,098 out of $5,620,866 for all factory products.

The views of Becher on the composition of substances mark little essential advance on those of the two preceding centuries, and the three elements or principles of salt, mercury and sulphur reappear as the vitrifiable, the mercurial and the combustible earths.

Salt, &c.Rock-salt is worked chiefly in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle,which produces more than half the average annual product of salt.

The group specially described as indirect taxes includes those on alcohol, wine, beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks, on passenger and goods traffic by railway, on licences to distillers, spirit-sellers, &c., on salt and on sugar of home manufacture.

Corn from middle Russia for Astrakhan is transferred from the railway to boats at Tsaritsyn; timber and wooden wares from the upper Volga are unloaded here and sent by rail to Kalach; and fish, salt and fruits sent from Astrakhan by boat up the Volga are here unloaded and despatched by rail to the interior of Russia.

It may be obtained as a dark brown amorphous powder by placing a mixture of io parts of the roughly powdered oxide with 6 parts of metallic sodium in a red-hot crucible, and covering the mixture with a layer of well-dried common salt.

Salt and phosphates of lime are exported.

The Villa Munichen or Forum ad monachos, so called from the monkish owners of the ground on which it lay, was first called into prominence by Duke Henry the Lion, who established a mint here in 1158, and made it the emporium for the salt coming from Hallein and Reichenhall.

It was, for nearly two years after this, rye and Indian meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my drink, water.

William Gilpin, who is so admirable in all that relates to landscapes, and usually so correct, standing at the head of Loch Fyne, in Scotland, which he describes as "a bay of salt water, sixty or seventy fathoms deep, four miles in breadth," and about fifty miles long, surrounded by mountains, observes, "If we could have seen it immediately after the diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, before the waters gushed in, what a horrid chasm must it have appeared!

Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.

Howie located a Salt Lake City missing girl of twelve, hidden in the loving care of a distant aunt.

A blue basic salt is precipitated first, which, on boiling, rapidly changes to the rose-coloured hydroxide.

Cobalt dioxide, Co02, has not yet been isolated in the pure state; it is probably formed when iodine and caustic soda are added to a solution of a cobaltous salt.

By dissolving it in concentrated sulphuric acid and warming the solution, the anhydrous salt is obtained.

This salt may be used for the separation of cobalt and nickel, since the latter metal does not form a similar double nitrite, but it is necessary that the alkaline earth metals should be absent, for in their presence nickel forms complex nitrites containing the alkaline earth metal and the alkali metal.

Cobalt ammonium phosphate, CoNH4PO 4.12H 2 0, is formed when a soluble cobalt salt is digested for some time with excess of a warm solution of ammonium phosphate.

The pentammine purpureo-salts are formed from the luteo-salts by loss of ammonia, or from an air slowly oxidized ammoniacal cobalt salt solution, the precipitated luteosalt being filtered off and the filtrate boiled with concentrated acids.

The total production in 1905 was 149,431 tons; the average price of salt for the island in 1905 was 22d.

To the north as far as the rocky point of St Gildas, sheltering the mouth of the Loire, the shore, often occupied by salt marshes (marshes of Poitou and Brittany), is low-lying and hollowed by deep bays sheltered by large islands, those of Olron and Re lying opposite the ports of Rochefort and La Rochelle, while Noirmoutier closes the Bay of Bourgneuf.

The aqueous solution is turned bluish black by ferrous sulphate containing a ferric salt.

In seasons of drought they are hardly more than swamps and mud flats, which for a time may become a grassy plain, or desolate coast encrusted with salt.

One of these depicts in a rough way lower Babylonia encircled by a " salt water river," Oceanus.

A pass through the hills gives access to Bahr-Assal; the last of a chain of salt lakes beginning 60 m.

The waters of Bahr-Assal are deeply impregnated with salt, which, in thick crusts, forms crescent-shaped round the banks - dazzling white when reflected by the sun.

The collection of salt from BahrAssal is an industry of some importance.

Among the analytical methods worked up by him the best known is that for the estimation of sugars by "Fehling's solution," which consists of a solution of cupric sulphate mixed with alkali and potassium-sodium tartrate (Rochelle salt).

Formerly the fishery was in the hands of the Dutch, whose supremacy was destroyed, however, by the imposition of the salt tax in 1712.