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salted with expressions like 'Shiver me timbers!', 'Avast
there!', and 'Blow me down!' 7 pickle, cure, preserve, corn,
marinate, souse: The book gives several recipes for curing ham
and salting beef. 8 salt away. save (up), hoard, put or lay or
set by or aside, squirrel away, store up, stockpile, amass,
accumulate, pile up, Colloq stash away, US and Canadian sock
away: They were always terribly stingy, claiming they were
salting something away for their old age.
--adj. 9 salty, saline, brackish, briny: The water had a salt
taste. 10 pickled, kippered, marinated, soused; corned; cured:
Do you like salt herring?
salute v. 1 greet, hail, address, accost: The moment I stepped in at
the door I was saluted with the peremptory question, 'Where have
you been?' 2 pay respects or homage or tribute to, honour,
recognize, acknowledge: Wherever she went she was saluted as a
heroine.
--n. 3 greeting, address, salutation: He returned my salute
with a nod.
salvage v. 1 save, recover, rescue, redeem, deliver, retrieve, reclaim:
Were you able to salvage anything of value after the fire?
--n. 2 recovery, rescue, retrieval, redemption, deliverance,
reclamation, salvation: The salvage of a vessel or cargo at sea
invests the salvager with legal rights under certain conditions.
salve n. 1 balm, ointment, unguent, dressing, cream, lotion,
demulcent, embrocation, liniment: The doctor applied a salve to
the wound and bandaged it. 2 emollient, balm, palliative,
tranquillizer, opiate, anodyne, narcotic, relief, assuagement:
The money was more a salve to his conscience than a token of his
charity.
--v. 3 mitigate, relieve, ease, alleviate, assuage, palliate,
soothe, mollify, comfort, appease: There must be something you
can do to allow them to save face and to salve their wounded
pride.
same adj. 1 identical, exact (same), selfsame; very: When I said
they were wearing the same dress I meant that they were wearing