salted, ppl. a.
(ˈsɒltɪd, -ɔː-)
[f. salt n.1 or v. + -ed.]
1. Cured, preserved, or pickled with salt.
| 13.. Cursor M. 4688 (Gött.) Ma þan a thousand celers Fild he wid wines neu and fress, And lardineris wid saltid fless [Cott., etc. salt]. 1555 Eden Decades 55 They..gaue them great plentie of salted fysshe. 1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 74 It preserves the Moisture of Salted Meats. 1732 Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 269 A Diet of salted Flesh throws Ships Crews sometimes into Diarrhœas. 1842 Browning Pied Piper ii, They..Split open the kegs of salted sprats. 1851 F. Knapp's Chem. Technol. III. 162 The preparation of sauerkraut and salted cucumbers. 1901 Scribner's Mag. XXIX. 474/2 The salted goose is a famous dish. |
2. a. Having salt as an ingredient; containing or impregnated with salt. Now used esp. of prepared foods, as salted almond, salted peanut, etc.
| 1526 Grete Herball xcix. (1529) F v b, Sethe these herbes..in salted water or in kyndly salt water. 1700 Dryden Iliad i. 628 Their salted Cakes on crackling Flames they cast. 1755 Man No. 28. 4 Innumerable species of the finny tribe, taking their solace in the bosom of the salted ocean. 1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 38 In one of the pots with the salted earth, and in one of those with the washed earth, he planted fennel. 1892 Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 15/1 Salted and ‘Devilled’ Almonds. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 6/3 The contact with the salted earth had caused considerable corrosion to the stone. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xix. 202 Georgiana ate only an olive, two or three salted almonds, and half a peach. 1935 M. Morphy Recipes of All Nations 775 Salted Green Peas, first cooked in cinders and then salted like almonds, are among Persian delicacies. 1954 ‘R. Crompton’ William & Moon Rocket iv. 85 Salted nuts..potato crisps..celery. 1970 E. David Spices, Salt & Aromatics in Eng. Kitchen 231 Salted almonds, whatever the promises held out by the words vacuum-sealed or oven-fresh on tins and jars are not to be bought. 1972 A. MacVicar Golden Venus Affair v. 49, I ordered a Pym's No. 1... We munched salted peanuts. |
b. Treated with salt.
| 1824 Trans. Highl. Soc. VI. 174 The grass-crop on the salted land will not exceed two-thirds of the weight of what is promised on the parts not salted. 1831 Brewster Optics xii. 108 A spirit lamp with a salted wick. 1884 A. Watt Soap-making 42 Salted soda, is composed of soft soda and common salt. |
c. Photogr. Impregnated with a salt or a mixture of salts in solution.
| 1855 T. F. Hardwich Photogr. Chem. ii. v. 279 This albumenized and salted paper will keep any length of time in a dry place. 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 9 The prints..on plain salted paper. |
3. fig. ‘Seasoned’ with wit or good sense; sensible.
(? Orig. with reference to Mark ix. 50.)
| 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 40 It was a well salted speech. 1869 Mrs. Whitney We Girls iv. (1874) 91 There's a pretty good piece of the world salted, after all. 1900 Phillpotts Sons of Morning ii. iv, I'd warn 'e to fill her mind with gude, salted sense. |
4. slang. or colloq. Of horses, etc.: Seasoned (from having survived attacks of disease, etc.); hence of persons: Experienced in some business or occupation.
| 1864 T. Baines Explorations in S.W. Afr. xv. 418 He asked carefully ‘whether the horse was salted’ (i.e. acclimatised by having recovered from the horse sickness). 1879 R. J. Atcherley Boërland 209 A ‘salted’ horse will always command a good price. 1889 F. Oates Matabele-Land 236 The old man tells me that a man gets a pain in his head and lies down, and next morning, if he is alive, he is ‘salted’. 1892 Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker i. 9 Mr. London Dodd, though he was new to the group of the Marquesas, was already an old salted trader. 1899 G. H. Russell Under the Sjambok xiv. 137 My friend has a very good ‘salted’ horse, just the sort of thing you will require in the Low Country. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 9/2 An expert and thoroughly ‘salted’ journalist. 1977 Buxton & Fraser Animal Microbiol. II. xlviii. 634/1 Horses and mules that have recovered from a natural attack of horse sickness are generally more resistant to disease than other equines and are known as ‘salted’, as are animals that have survived for a number of years in badly infected areas without ever showing obvious signs of the disease. |
5. slang. (See salt v.1 9.)
| 1862 California Mag. Jan. 355/1, I lost my $2,000 by buying a ‘salted’ claim. 1886 P. Clarke ‘New Chum’ in Australia vii. 71 Taken in with a ‘salted claim’, a ‘pit’ sold for a {pstlg}10 note in which a nugget worth a few shillings had before been ‘planted’. 1889 Mrs. C. Praed Rom. Station 200 Their bogus companies and their salted gold-mines. 1949 This Week Mag. 15 Oct. 27/4 They are occasionally called upon by unscrupulous characters whose main object is to sell them a ‘salted’ mine. |