Main Entry: ²salt

Function: transitive verb

Date: before 12th century

1 a : to treat, provide, or season with common salt b : to preserve (food) with salt or in brine c : to supply (as an animal) with salt
2 : to give flavor or piquancy to (as a story)
3 a : to enrich (as a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places b : to add something to secretly <salted the files with forged papers>; also : to insert or place secretly <salted the mines along the road>
4 a : to sprinkle with or as if with a salt b : scatter, intersperse

— salt·er \ˈsȯl-tər\ noun