Definition of "Salt" :

noun: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

noun: negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

noun: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

noun: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

verb: preserve with salt

"People used to salt meats on ships."

verb: add zest or liveliness to

"She salts her lectures with jokes."

verb: sprinkle as if with salt

"The rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps."

verb: add salt to

adjective: (of speech) painful or bitter

"Salt scorn."