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salt(1)(dictionary)
Salt(medicine)
salt dye(medicine)
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asperity (iou) and salt 1, noun (oh)


asperity (iou)



asperity noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French asperite or Latin asperitas, from asper rough, harsh: see -ITY.]
Hardship; rigour, severity. arch. ME.
Henry More To..minysh the vygour and asperite of the paynes. S. Johnson The nakedness and asperity of the wintry world.
Harshness to any of the senses; roughness, ruggedness; hardness. arch. LME.
Caxton Fewe people wente for to see him, for the grete asprete or sharpnesse of the place. G. Berkeley The asperity of tartarous salts. S. Johnson Our language, of which the chief defect is ruggedness and asperity.
b. A rough excrescence. arch. M17.
J. Lindley Almost all Delimace? have the leaves covered with asperities.
Harshness or sharpness of temper, esp. as displayed in tone or manner; bitterness, acrimony; in pl., embittered feelings. M17.
Dickens Demanded with much asperity what she meant. H. Wilson Intervening also to soften asperities and curb the invocation of personalities.

salt 1, noun (oh)




[Language: Old English; Origin: sealt]
[U] a natural white mineral that is added to Food to make it taste better or to preserve it
::This might need some salt and pepper.
::a pinch of salt (=a very small amount)
::Could you pass the salt?
the salt of the earth
someone who is ordinary but good and honest
take sth with a pinch/grain of salt
informal to not completely believe what someone tells you, because you know that they do not always tell the truth
::Most of what he says should be taken with a pinch of salt.
[C] technical a type of chemical substance that is formed when an acid is combined with a base
-see also Epsom salts , smelling salts , old salt , rub salt into sb's wounds at rub 1 (7), worth his/her salt at worth 1 (10)