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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