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}.
Tailor \Tai"lor\, n. [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF.
taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a
cutting, layer for planting. Cf. {Detail}, {Entail},
{Retail}, {Tally}, n.]
1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's
garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer
garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou
wert a man's tailor. --Shak.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The mattowacca; -- called also {tailor herring}.
(b) The silversides.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
{Salt-water tailor} (Zo["o]l.), the bluefish. [Local, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
{Tailor bird} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to
{Orthotomus}, {Prinia}, and allied genera. They are noted
for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form
nests. The common Indian species are {O. longicauda},
which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts
yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the
golden-headed tailor bird ({O. coronatus}), which has the
top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale
olive-green.