salt

adj

Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt.

1. Of water: containing salt, saline.

   “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.”

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

   “salt beef”

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

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

   “a salt marsh”

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

   “salt grass”

5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

   “a salt mine”

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

6. Bitter; sharp; pungent.

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

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

   “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.”

   “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 […]”

8. Costly; expensive.

name

1. Acronym of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel-der. Proto-Italic *saljō Latin saliō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin saltusbor. English salt Borrowed from Latin saltus.

1. A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

   “[…] 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;”

verb

Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt.

1. To add salt to.

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

2. To deposit salt as a saline solution.

   “The brine begins to salt.”

3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
6. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

   “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.”

7. To sprinkle throughout.

   “They salted the document with arcane language.”

   “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.”

8. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
9. To render a thing useless.

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

10. To render a thing useless.