saltern

[SALT (1), s.] A salt manufactory where water is evaporated from brine and dry salt obtained. More especially a plot of retentive land, laid out in pools and walks, where the sea-water is admitted to be evaporated by the heat of the sun's rays. The operation is concluded in boilers. "The salterns of the Normans and the Old English have suffered very different fates. In Normandy the sea no longer reaches to their sites whilst here it has long since rolled over them."- London Daily News. săl-tiç-i-dæ, s. pl. [Lat. saltic (us); fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] Zool .: A family of Dip neum ones, section Vagabunde. The cephalothorax is nearly rectangular, and the eyes are placed in it in three transverse rows. Active spiders, weaving no webs, but trying to approach their prey by stealth and then springing upon it suddenly. săl-ti-cus, s. [Lat. dancing.] Zool.: The typical genus of Salticide (q. v.). Salticus scenic us is a small spider banded with black and white, often met with in gardens, on brick walls, railings, the trunks of trees, . salt-le, s. [Eng. salt, a.; -ie.] Ichthy.: Pleuronectes limanda , the Common Dab (q. v.).