n.
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 < salt ed the files with forged papers> also : to insert or place secretly < salt ed the mines along the road>
4 a : to sprinkle with or as if with a salt b : SCATTER , INTERSPERSE
– salt · er \ ' so ̇ l-t ə r \ noun