资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{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} (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid
moth ({Spilosoma acr[ae]a} 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} (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under
{Rail}.
{Salt-marsh terrapin} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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.
{Salt-water sailor}, an ocean mariner.
{Salt-water tailor}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Bluefish}.
{Horse emmet} (Zo["o]l.), the horse ant.
{Horse finch} (Zo["o]l.), the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
{Horse gentian} (Bot.), fever root.
{Horse iron} (Naut.), a large calking iron.
{Horse latitudes}, a space in the North Atlantic famous for
calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds
of higher latitudes and the trade winds. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
{Horse mackrel}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The common tunny ({Orcynus thunnus}), found on the
Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the
Mediterranean.
(b) The bluefish ({Pomatomus saltatrix}).
(c) The scad.
(d) The name is locally applied to various other fishes,
as the California hake, the black candlefish, the
jurel, the bluefish, etc.
{Horse marine} (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a
mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang]
{Horse mussel} (Zo["o]l.), a large, marine mussel ({Modiola
modiolus}), found on the northern shores of Europe and
America.
{Horse nettle} (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the
{Solanum Carolinense}.
{Horse parsley}. (Bot.) See {Alexanders}.
{Horse purslain} (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical
America ({Trianthema monogymnum}).
{Horse race}, a race by horses; a match of horses in running
or trotting.
{Horse racing}, the practice of racing with horses.
{Horse railroad}, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by
horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States,
called a {tramway}.
{Horse run} (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded
wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power.
{Horse sense}, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.]
{Horse soldier}, a cavalryman.
{Horse sponge} (Zo["o]l.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge
({Spongia equina}).
{Horse stinger} (Zo["o]l.), a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.]
{Horse sugar} (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the
United States ({Symplocos tinctoria}), whose leaves are
sweet, and good for fodder.
{Horse tick} (Zo["o]l.), a winged, dipterous insect
({Hippobosca equina}), which troubles horses by biting
them, and sucking their blood; -- called also {horsefly},
{horse louse}, and {forest fly}.
{Horse vetch} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Hippocrepis} ({H.
comosa}), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; --
called also {horsehoe vetch}, from the peculiar shape of
its pods.
{Iron horse}, a locomotive. [Colloq.]
{Salt horse}, the sailor's name for salt beef.
{To look a gift horse in the mouth}, to examine the mouth of
a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to
ascertain his age; -- hence, to accept favors in a
critical and thankless spirit. --Lowell.
{To take horse}.
(a) To set out on horseback. --Macaulay.
(b) To be covered, as a mare.
(c) See definition 7 (above).