salt

salt (http://definr.com/salt)

     adj 1: containing or filled with salt; "salt water" [ant: fresh]
     2: (rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"-
        Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
     3: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of
        sea water [syn: salty]
     4: (used especially of meats) preserved in salt [syn: salt(a),
         salted, salt-cured]
     n 1: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a
          metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
     2: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to
        season and preserve food [syn: table salt, common salt]
     3: negotiations between the US and the USSR opened in 1969 in
        Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of
        nuclear weapons [syn: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT]
     4: the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth [syn:
         saltiness, salinity]
     v 1: add salt to
     2: preserve with salt, as of meats