saltish

Historical Examples

• It was found to be saltish to the taste, and to dissolve readily in water.

  The Book of the Damned

  Charles Fort

• It is limpid, like water, of a saltish taste, and without odor.

  A Treatise on Domestic Economy

  Catherine Esther Beecher

• Its taste is saltish, with a degree of roughness and astringency.

  Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed.

  Pierre Joseph Macquer

• Saltish this water may be, but nine-tenths of it is honest rain from heaven.'

  Foe-Farrell

  Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

• The saltish atmosphere is left behind, and the air tings with the sweetness of mountain and lake.

  Alaska

  Ella Higginson