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saltless, a.|ˈsɒltlɪs, -ɔː-|
[f. salt n.1 + -less. Cf. Du. zouteloos, G. salzlos, with sense 2.]
1. Without salt; unsalted.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxiv. (1495) 905 Saltlesse chese is moost nourysshynge and moysteth the body. 1658Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 96 He that hath beheld what quantity of lead the test of saltless ashes will imbibe. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 414 [He] took the Earth to be quite Saltlesse. 1823Byron Island iii. iii, Its bounding crystal..gush'd from cliff to crag with saltless spray. 1863W. Smith's Dict. Bible III. 1096/2 (Salt), It was the belief of the Jews that salt would, by exposure to the air.., become saltless. 1905Punch 25 Oct. 290/1 It is the landsman's lusty throat That rends to-day a saltless air.
2. fig. Lacking piquancy, poignancy, interest, or liveliness; insipid, ‘flat’.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 8 A heavy and saltless oration is insufferable to a quick hearer. a1658Cleveland Agst. Ale iv. Poems (1687) 305 Saltless and galless be thy Curse. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iii. 73 It promises to afford a slight pungency of flavour to my tasteless life in this saltless wilderness. 1885D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold III. 219 The days went by, saltless, lifeless.
Hence ˈsaltlessness.
1682Boyle in R. Fitzgerald Salt-Water Sweetened 16 The main thing of all that convinced me of the Saltlessness of the Water I speak of. 1867Queen Victoria Let. 13 Feb. in R. Fulford Your Dear Letter (1971) 121 There is great bitterness in the constant depression..and total saltlessness of my life. |