Source : 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.