saltness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saltness
before 900; Middle English saltnesse; Old English sealtnes. See salt 1, -ness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The principal of these are Lakes Eyre, Torrens, and Gairdner, all of which vary in size and saltness according to the season.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
But when boiled they get rid of all, or at all events of most, of their saltness, which they infuse into the water which boils them.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The perfect salt is produced by the coalescence of the saltness of the acid with the saltness of the alkali.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
It far exceeds that of the sea, in saltness, and produces, upon the lips, the effect of a strong solution of alum.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
The current was in our favour, which with the saltness of the water, inclined me to think it a channel, and not the mouth of a river.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
