piece(1) (iou) and Salt (medicine)

piece(1) (iou)

piece noun. [pi:s] ME.
[Anglo-Norman pece, Old French piece (mod. piece) from Proto-Romance (cf. medieval Latin petia, pecia, pet(t)ium), prob. of Gaulish origin: cf. PEAT noun1.]
A separate part of a material thing; any of the distinct portions or objects of which a material thing is composed. ME.
base-piece, ear-piece, eyepiece, etc. fig.: W. G. Hardy Suddenly the pieces seemed to fit together.
G. K. Chesterton He slit the paper into about five pieces. Daily Telegraph Still wearing dated, conventional two-piece outfits.
b. spec. Any of the irregular sections of a jigsaw or similar puzzle. E20.
A portion of land, a distinct or enclosed area. ME.
A single, usu. small quantity of a substance or a non-material thing. ME.
J. Moynahan A piece of Music like Wagner's Liebestod. G. Vidal Sawing a piece of bacon in half.
A single item of a group or class of similar objects; an article of furniture, luggage, ordnance, etc. ME.
Times Many vital pieces of equipment. R. Rendell She'd got some beautiful furniture in her placevaluable pieces.
b. A musician with his or her instrument, as part of an orchestra or band. E20.
Washington Post Asha's songs were..played..by the eight-piece orchestra.
A person, an individual. Now usu. spec., a young woman, esp. regarded as a sexual object. ME.
J. Heller There was Mary Slocum..a short sexy piece.
a. A period of time; a while. Now dial. ME.
b. A short distance; a part of the way. N. Amer. & dial. LME.
New Yorker He lives down the road a piece.
A part or portion of a non-material thing. LME-M18.
H. Wotton One of the most fastidious pieces of my life.
An instance or specimen of a (material or non-material) thing. LME.
A. C. Ducarel The..screen at the west end of the choir is a beautiful piece of architecture. Day Lewis I do not use the hyphen in my surnamea piece of inverted snobbery.
b. A person regarded as an exemplar of some quality. E17-L18.
A cask of Wine or brandy. LME.
A specific length of cloth or Wallpaper. LME.
a. An article of armour; a part of a suit of armour. LME.
head-piece, shoulder-piece, thigh-piece, etc.
b. A fortress, a stronghold. E16-E18.
c. A cannon, a large gun. E16.
d. A portable firearm, a handgun. Now chiefly N. Amer. slang. L16.
E. Leonard Vincent..went for his piece yelling..halt or he'd fire.
A coin (freq. with specifying word). Formerly spec. an English gold coin. LME.
R. Brautigan The sun was like a huge fifty-cent piece.
Any of the objects used to make moves in a board game such as chess, draughts, backgammon, etc.; spec. (Chess) a chessman Other than a pawn. M16.
a. More fully piece of work. A specimen of workmanship; a work of Art; spec. (a) a painting; (b) a statue; (c) a play. M16.
b. A (usu. short) literary or musical composition, as a poem, sonata, newspaper article, etc. M16.
K. Clark He wrote..over one hundred symphonies and many hundreds of occasional pieces. G. Keillor I got $6000..for Writing a piece about the Grand Ole Opry.
c. A short discourse; a passage for recitation. dial. & N. Amer. M19.
A boat. M16-L17.
A separate article of property in transit, a package; spec. (Hist.) in the N. American fur trade, a package weighing about ninety pounds. Chiefly N. Amer. L18.
A slice of bread and butter, a sandwich; a snack. Scot. & dial. L18.
In pl.
a. In the malting process, grain spread out for steeping. M19.
b. Sugar of a poorer quality obtained from a later boiling of the sugar liquor. M19.
c. Oddments of wool which are detached from the skirtings of a fleece. Also, the skirtings themselves. Chiefly Austral. & NZ. L19.
Foll. by of: a share in, involvement in; a financial interest in (a business, project, etc.). Freq. in a piece of the action below. slang. E20.
A quantity of a drug, esp. morphine or heroin, approximately equal to one ounce. N. Amer. slang. M20.
[from masterpiece.] A particularly elaborate graffito. slang. L20.
Phrases: all of a piece, of a piece consisting of a single piece or mass; fig. (all) of the same kind; uniform, consistent; (foll. by with). all to pieces (a) into many pieces, asunder (go all to pieces = go to pieces below); (b) in many pieces or fragments; (c) dial. & N. Amer. (with appreciative connotation) thoroughly, very well. a piece of the action slang a share of the profits accruing from something; a share in the excitement. bits and pieces: see BIT noun2. blanket-piece: see BLANKET noun 5. by the piece at a rate of so much per fixed amount; (paid) according to the amount of work done. come to pieces: see to pieces below. fall to pieces: see to pieces below. give a piece of one's mind to: see MIND noun1. go to pieces: see to pieces below. into pieces into fragments, asunder; to pieces. in one piece consisting of a single piece or mass; fig. whole, without injury or loss. in pieces (a) broken, in fragments; (b) into fragments, asunder; to pieces. LETTERING piece. love to pieces colloq. love very much. of a piece: see all of a piece above. of one piece = in one piece above. on piece, on the piece doing piece-work. pick to pieces: see to pieces below. piece by piece with one piece or part after another in succession; gradually. piece of arse, piece of ass coarse slang (chiefly N. Amer.) a woman regarded as an object of sexual gratification; sexual intercourse with a woman. piece of cake: see CAKE noun. piece of crumpet: see CRUMPET 5. piece of eight: see EIGHT noun 1. piece of flesh arch. a human being. piece of gold, piece of silver, etc., a gold, silver, etc., coin. piece of goods: see GOOD noun. piece of meat: see MEAT noun. piece of tail coarse slang (chiefly N. Amer. = piece of arse above. piece of water a small lake, a pond. piece of work (a) a task, a difficult thing; colloq. a commotion, a to-do; (b) a person of a specified (usu. unpleasant) kind; freq. in nasty piece of work; (see also sense 14a above). pull to pieces: see to pieces below. to pieces into fragments, asunder; to a state of distraction or confusion; come to pieces, go to pieces, break up, lose cohesion; fig. break down emotionally or mentally; fall to pieces, disintegrate, collapse; dial. & Austral. slang give birth to a child; pick to pieces, pull to pieces, = take to pieces (b) below; take to pieces, (a) separate into component parts, take apart; (b) fig. criticize unfavourably or harshly; refute (an argument etc.) strongly; (see also all to pieces, love to pieces above).
Comb.: piece-bag N. Amer. a bag or box for holding pieces of cloth; piece-broker arch. a dealer in cloth remnants; piece-dye verb trans. dye (cloth) after weaving; piece-goods cloth woven in fixed lengths for sale; piece-mould a sculptor's mould which can be removed in pieces; piece-payment payment by the piece or item produced; piece-price a price paid for piece-work; piece-rate rate of payment for piece-work; piece-work (a) work paid for by the amount produced; (b) = PATCHWORK noun 2; piece-worker: who is paid according to the amount done.
piecewise adverb by pieces; spec. in Math., throughout each of a finite number of pieces but not necessarily throughout the whole: L17.

Salt (medicine)

salt

1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

Origin: Salted; Salting.

1. The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning Food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and Other water impregnated with saline particles.

2. Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning. "Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . We have some salt of our youth in us." (Shak)

3. Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

4. A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar. "I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts." (Pepys)

5. A sailor; usually qualified by old. "Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts." (Hawthorne)

6. <chemistry> The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Except in case of ammonium salts, accurately speaking, it is the acid radical which unites with the base or basic radical, with the elimination of hydrogen, of water, or of analogous compounds as side products. In the case of diacid and triacid bases, and of dibasic and tribasic acids, the mutual neutralization may vary in degree, producing respectively basic, neutral, or acid salts See Phrases below.

7. That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt. "Ye are the salt of the earth." (Matt. V. 13)

8. Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

9. Marches flooded by the tide. Above the salt, Below the salt, phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See Saltfoot. "His Fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never Drinks below the salt." (B.

<medicine> Jonson) Acid salt, a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.

Origin: AS. Sealt; akin to OS. & OFries. Salt, D. Zout, G. Salz, Icel, Sw, & Dan. Salt, L. Sal, Gr, Russ. Sole, Ir. & Gael. Salann, W. Halen, of unknown origin. Cf. Sal, Salad, Salary, Saline, Sauce, Sausage.

1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears."

2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

3. Bitter; sharp; pungent. "I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me." (Shak)

4. Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

<chemistry> Salt acid, an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acreae which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to Other crops. Called also wooly bear.

<botany> Salt-marsh fleabane, 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.

<zoology> See Bluefish.

Origin: AS. Sealt, salt. See Salt.

Source: Websters Dictionary

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