salt spring
[salt a.1]
A flow of salt water or brine out of the earth; a brine-spring, brine-well. Also as attrib. phr.
| 1601 Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. II. xxxi. vii. 416 In some parts of Spaine there be salt springs. a 1647 Habington Surv. Worcs. in Proc. Worcs. Hist. Soc. II. 301 After the deathe of Richard the Saltspringes of Wich fell to decaye. 1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor i. 321 Of Salt-Petre, Vitriol, Allum and Salt Springs. 1748 J. Hill Hist. Fossils 382 The Sea-water and Salt-springs sustain it [sc. alimentary salt]..in a liquid form. 1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 27 The Britons, who had, in several places, plenty of salt-springs. 1834 Phil. Mag. IV. 31 The comparative strength of the salt springs of that country at different depths. 1839 G. Roberts Dict. Geol., Salt Springs, which contain a large quantity of common salt, obtained from them by mere evaporation. 1852 J. Reynolds Hist. Illinois 86 They discovered in the present county of Galatin, salt springs. 1853 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. IV. 9 The twenty-two sections of salt spring lands now unappropriated. |