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saltish

ADJECTIVE
  1. somewhat salty

How To Use saltish In A Sentence

  • In one instance there are two springs, and one more saltish than the other. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
  • One might say, to be sure, that they were a little saltish, and then again, with that exception, there was no remarkable flavor; but that might be the rarity, _not to have any flavor_. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4
  • About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
  • Atharva was born of sweet water and Angiras was born of saltish water.
  • Give nothing saltish nor acrid, for they will not be borne; and give no draughts of ptisan until the crisis be past. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • The sweetness from the pumpkin would complement the slightly saltish luncheon.
  • And when he had ended his verse, the slave-girl came down upon him with blows till he fainted again; and, throwing him a flap of bread and a gugglet of saltish water, went away and left him sad and lonely, bound in chains of iron, with the blood streaming from his sides and far from those he loved. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And I reckon this very circumstance the strongest proof that it is not from heat simply that men get into the febrile state, neither is it the sole cause of the mischief, but that this species of heat is bitter, and that acid, and the other saltish, and many other varieties; and again there is cold combined with other qualities. On Ancient Medicine
  • About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
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