Definitions for salts

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salts salt

Spelling: [sawlt]

IPA: /sɔlt/

Salts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in salts (alsst).

Definitions for salts

noun

1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
2. table salt mixed with a particular herb or seasoning for which it is named:
3. Chemistry. any of a class of compounds formed by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of an acid with elements or groups, which are composed of anions and cations, and which usually ionize in solution; a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base.
4. salts, any of various salts used as purgatives, as Epsom salts.
5. an element that gives liveliness, piquancy, or pungency:
6. wit; pungency.
7. a small, usually open dish, as of silver or glass, used on the table for holding salt.
8. Informal. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one:
9. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Idioms

1. rub salt in / into someone's wounds, to make someone's bad situation even worse.
2. with a grain / pinch of salt, with reserve or allowance; with an attitude of skepticism:
3. worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary:

adjective

1. containing salt; having the taste of salt:
2. cured or preserved with salt:
3. inundated by or growing in salt water:
4. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter.
5. pungent or sharp:

Verb phrases

1. salt away, Also, salt down. to preserve by adding quantities of salt to, as meat. Informal. to keep in reserve; store away; save:
2. salt out, to separate (a dissolved substance) from a solution by the addition of a salt, especially common salt.

verb (used with object)

1. to season with salt.
2. to cure, preserve, or treat with salt.
3. to furnish with salt:
4. to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt.
5. to spread salt, especially rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice:
6. to introduce rich ore or other valuable matter fraudulently into (a mine, the ground, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value.
7. to add interest or excitement to:

Origin of salts

before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English; Old English sealt; cognate with German Salz, Old Norse, Gothic salt; akin to Latin sāl, Greek háls (see halo-); (v.) Middl

Examples for salts

"It was on your dresser when I went up for the salts," said her chum.

As has been stated previously, manganese forms two series of salts.

Tanned leather is best cleaned with nitrous acid and salts of lemon diluted with water, and afterwards mixed with skimmed milk.

Then salts were good for headache-should she bring a bottle from her box?

Hanging on to the bulwarks, I smell the salts that are thrust under my nose.

The object of the process called osmosis is to carry off these salts.

One easy way to build them back up is to take a bath with Epsom salts, which contain sulfur.

The salts and more active spirits of tar are got by infusion in cold water; but the resinous part is not to be dissolved thereby.

She felt in her bosom and drew out a flask of salts, which she set to his nostrils.

Sulphur springs with Epsom salts in combination are nearly as common.