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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| salt (sɔːlt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a white powder or colourless crystalline solid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and used for seasoning and preserving food |
| 2. | (modifier) preserved in, flooded with, containing, or growing in salt or salty water: salt pork; salt marshes |
| 3. | chem any of a class of usually crystalline solid compounds that are formed from, or can be regarded as formed from, an acid and a base by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms in the acid molecules by positive ions from the base |
| 4. | liveliness or pungency: his wit added salt to the discussion |
| 5. | dry or laconic wit |
| 6. | a sailor, esp one who is old and experienced |
| 7. | short for saltcellar |
| 8. | rub salt into someone's wounds to make someone's pain, shame, etc, even worse |
| 9. | salt of the earth a person or group of people regarded as the finest of their kind |
| 10. | with a grain of salt, with a pinch of salt with reservations; sceptically |
| 11. | worth one's salt efficient; worthy of one's pay |
| —vb (often foll by down | |
| 12. | to season or preserve with salt |
| 13. | to scatter salt over (an icy road, path, etc) to melt the ice |
| 14. | to add zest to |
| 15. | to preserve or cure with salt or saline solution |
| 16. | chem to treat with common salt or other chemical salt |
| 17. | to provide (cattle, etc) with salt |
| 18. | to give a false appearance of value to, esp to introduce valuable ore fraudulently into (a mine, sample, etc) |
| —adj | |
| 19. | not sour, sweet, or bitter; salty |
| 20. | obsolete rank or lascivious (esp in the phrase a salt wit) |
| [Old English sealt; related to Old Norse, Gothic salt, German Salz, Lettish sāls, Latin sāl, Greek hals] | |
| 'saltish | |
| —adj | |
| 'saltless | |
| —adj | |
| 'saltlike | |
| —adj | |
| 'saltness | |
| —n | |