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  Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. Salter; superl. Saltest.] [AS.
     sealt, salt. See Salt, n.]
     1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt;
        prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted;
        as, salt beef; salt water. ``Salt tears.'' --Chaucer.
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     2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt
        marsh; salt grass.
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     3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
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              I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --Shak.
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     4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak.
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     Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
  
     Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt
        factory. --Knight.
  
     Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline
        efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
     Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of
        sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the
        first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to
        Leblanc's process.
  
     Salt fish.
        (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar
            fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
        (b) A marine fish.
  
     Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of
        sea water for the production of salt, employing large
        shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
  
     Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of
        brine; a salimeter.
  
     Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang]
  
     Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]
  
     Salt lick. See Lick, n.
  
     Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt
        water.
  
     Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid
        moth ({Spilosoma acr[ae]a which is very destructive to
        the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also
        woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and
        Woolly bear, under Woolly.
  
     Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb
        ({Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads,
        growing in salt marshes.
  
     Salt-marsh hen (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under
        Rail.
  
     Salt-marsh terrapin (Zo["o]l.), the diamond-back.
  
     Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
  
     Salt pan.
        (a) A 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.
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              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.
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     Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.
  
     Salt-water tailor. (Zo["o]l.) See Bluefish.
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     Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
  
     Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt
        factory. --Knight.
  
     Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline
        efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
     Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of
        sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the
        first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to
        Leblanc's process.
  
     Salt fish.
        (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar
            fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
        (b) A marine fish.
  
     Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of
        sea water for the production of salt, employing large
        shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
  
     Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of
        brine; a salimeter.
  
     Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang]
  
     Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]
  
     Salt lick. See Lick, n.
  
     Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt
        water.
  
     Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid
        moth ({Spilosoma acr[ae]a which is very destructive to
        the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also
        woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and
        Woolly bear, under Woolly.
  
     Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb
        ({Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads,
        growing in salt marshes.
  
     Salt-marsh hen (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under
        Rail.
  
     Salt-marsh terrapin (Zo["o]l.), the diamond-back.
  
     Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
  
     Salt pan.
        (a) A 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. (Zo["o]l.) See Bluefish.

  salt marsh
     alt.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
     n.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

  salt marsh
     alt.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
     n.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

  salt marsh
     alt.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
     n.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

  salt marsh
     alt.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
     n.
     A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land
  and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges
  adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

  salt marsh
     Englanti n.
     marskimaa, marski, suolamarski

  salt marsh /sˈɒlt mˈɑːʃ/
  Salzwiese 

  salt marsh /sˈɒlt mˈɑːʃ/
  Salzsumpf 
     Synonym: saltmarsh
  
   see: salt marshes, saltmarshes
  

  salt marsh /sˈɒlt mˈɑːʃ/ 
  marskimaa
  marsh of saline water

  salt marsh /sˈɒlt mˈɑːʃ/ 
  塩沼
  marsh of saline water

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "salt marsh":
     alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, baygall, bog, bottom,
     bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, bushveld, campo, champaign,
     champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs,
     everglade, fell, fen, fenland, flat, flat country, flatland, flats,
     glade, grass veld, grassland, heath, hog wallow, holm, lande,
     level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, marais, mare, marish,
     marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mesa, mesilla, mire, moor,
     moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, open country, pampa, pampas,
     peat bog, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie,
     quagmire, quicksand, salt flat, salt pan, savanna, sebkha,
     slob land, slough, sough, steppe, sump, swale, swamp, swampland,
     table, tableland, taiga, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld,
     wallow, wash, weald, wide-open spaces, wold
  
  

     n. 盐沼