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▪ I. ˈsea-salt, n.
Common salt obtained by the evaporation of sea-water. See salt n.1 1.
1601Holland Pliny xxxi. vii. II. 416 After which they esteemed most, all the sea salts. 1685Boyle Salubr. Air 86 A little sea-salt dissolv'd in a few spoonfulls of fair water. 1766Smollett Trav. I. xxiv. 358 The atmosphere being..impregnated with sea-salt. 1836–41Brande Chem. 362 Sea-salt, or chloride of sodium. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv, There was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt.
Hence ˈsea-salted a., impregnated or seasoned with sea-salt.
1925V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 70 The brisk sea-salted air of their intimacy. a1941― Captain's Death Bed (1950) 31 This gnarled and sea-salted man was no smug clergyman underneath.
▪ II. ˈsea-salt, a. rare.
[salt a.1]
Salt like the sea; impregnated with or containing sea-salt.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iii. ii. 20 That all the teares that thy poore eyes let fall May..Drowne the lamenting foole, in Sea salt teares. 1596R. L[inche] Diella (1877) 78 In Sea⁓salt teares hee long hath liu'd. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin xiv. iv, I was kissing Winnie's sea-salt lips. |