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large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is
evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works. — Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or
made. — Salt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.] — Salt
raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea. — Salt sedative (Chem.),
boracic acid. [Obs.] — Salt spring, a spring of salt water. — Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous
tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. — Salt
water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also,
tears.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a
sort of traitors here. Shak. — Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner. — Salt-water tailor. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish.
Salt
(Salt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salted; p. pr. & vb. n. Salting.]
1. 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.
2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value.
[Cant] — To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs,
etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.
Salt
(Salt) v. i. To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
Salt
(Salt) n. [L. saltus, fr. salire to leap.] The act of leaping or jumping; a leap. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Saltant
(Sal"tant) a. [L. saltans, p. pr. of saltare to dance, v. intens. fr. salire to leap: cf. F. sautant.
See Sally, v.]
1. Leaping; jumping; dancing.
2. (Her.) In a leaping position; springing forward; — applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat,
also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
Saltarella
(||Sal`ta*rel"la) n. See Saltarello.
Saltarello
(||Sal`ta*rel"lo) n. [It., fr. L. saltare to jump.] A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8
time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
Saltate
(Sal"tate) v. i. [See Saltant.] To leap or dance. [R.]
Saltation
(Sal*ta"tion) n. [L. saltatio: cf. F. saltation.]
1. A leaping or jumping.
Continued his saltation without pause. Sir W. Scott. 2. Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.
3. (Biol.) An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification
which may give rise to new races.
We greatly suspect that nature does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and
that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms.
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