How to pronounce salt in English

"Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom England -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia."

"The chloride of sodium a substance used for seasoning food for the preservation of meat etc. It is found native in the earth and is also produced by evaporation and crystallization from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles."

"Hence flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning."

"Hence also piquancy; wit; sense; as Attic salt."

"A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar."

"A sailor; -- usually qualified by old."

"The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol."

"Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also an allowance or deduction; as his statements must be taken with a grain of salt."

"Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic especially Epsom salts Rochelle salt or Glauber's salt."

"Marshes flooded by the tide."

"Of or relating to salt; abounding in or containing salt; prepared or preserved with or tasting of salt; salted; as salt beef; salt water."

"Overflowed with or growing in salt water; as a salt marsh; salt grass."

"Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent."

"Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful."

"To sprinkle impregnate or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as to salt fish beef or pork; to salt cattle."

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

"To deposit salt as a saline solution; as the brine begins to salt."

"The act of leaping or jumping; a leap."