salts

noun

1
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
2
One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3
A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
4
A sailor (also old salt).
5
Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
6
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
7
Flavour; taste; seasoning.
8
Piquancy; wit; sense.
“Attic salt”
9
A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
10
Skepticism and common sense.
11
Indignation; outrage; arguing.

1
To add salt to.
“to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter”
2
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
“The brine begins to salt.”
3
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
4
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
5
To include colorful language in.
6
To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

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