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Found 5 hits - Term: salt lick, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

   2. overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt
      marsh; salt grass.
      1913 webster

   3. fig.: bitter; sharp; pungent.
      1913 webster

            i have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. fig.: salacious; lecherous; lustful. --shak.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

   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 zool., an american bombycid moth
      spilosoma acraea 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 zool., the clapper rail. see under rail.
      

   salt-marsh terrapin zool., 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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.

   salt-water tailor. zool. see bluefish.
      1913 webster
see also:
salter saltest salt salt acid salt block salt bottom 
salt cake salt fish salt garden salt gauge salt horse 
salt junk salt lick lick salt marsh salt-marsh caterpillar 
spilosoma acraea woolly bear moth pupa woolly bear 
woolly salt-marsh fleabane pluchea camphorata salt-marsh hen rail 
salt-marsh terrapin salt mine salt pan salt pit salt rising 
salt raker salt sedative salt spring salt tree halimodendron argenteum 
salt water salt-water sailor salt-water tailor bluefish 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lick \lick\, n. see lick, v.
   1. a stroke of the tongue in licking. "a lick at the honey
      pot." --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. a quick and careless application of anything, as if by a
      stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a
      tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush.
      also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
      colloq.
      1913 webster

            a lick of court whitewash.            --gray.
      1913 webster

   3. a place where salt is found on the surface of the earth,
      to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but
      not always, near salt springs. called also salt lick.
      u. s.
      1913 webster
see also:
lick salt lick 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
salt lick
     n : a salt deposit that animals regularly lick syn: lick
see also:
lick 
[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
salt lick, ky city, fips 68160
  location: 38.11948 n, 83.61609 w
  population 1990: 342 161 housing units
  area: 2.0 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 40371

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
salt lick, ky -- u.s. city in kentucky
   population 2000:    342
   housing units 2000: 157
   land area 2000:     0.781603 sq. miles 2.024342 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.781603 sq. miles 2.024342 sq. km
   fips code:            68160
   located within:       kentucky ky, fips 21
   location:             38.119555 n, 83.616069 w
   zip codes 1990:     40371
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    salt lick, ky
    salt lick



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