salted

1. 1
   adjective

   Having had salt added, usually for flavor or for preservation.

   The recipe calls for salted butter rather than the unsalted kind.

   Sailors once survived long voyages on salted pork and dried beans.

   Similarsalty, corned, brined

   Oppositeunsalted, fresh

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of salt.

   The cook salted the fries lightly before they reached the table.

   Crews had salted the roads well before the storm arrived.

   Note

   The participle carries every meaning of the verb, not just the kitchen one. A salted mine has had metal blasted into it to fake a productive seam, a salted dig has been planted with bogus finds, and a salted weapon has been laced with elements that boost its radiation. Context decides: beside food it means the plain "with salt added" adjective; beside mines or digs it means fraud.

3. 3
   adjectivearchaicSouth Africa

   Of an animal, immune to a disease through vaccination or after having recovered from an earlier infection.

   Buyers paid a premium for salted horses that had already survived the sickness.

   It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.

   1901, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”

   Note

   An archaic South African term, and one that carried a warning with it. H. Watkins-Pitchford, writing on horse-sickness in 1901, refers to "so-called salted animals" and cautions that recovered horses might still harbor the disease and infect others. Today immune or vaccinated does the job; salted in this sense belongs in historical writing or in quoting the period.

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