Adj. salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife.

It is a good way to make use of pickles in winter that have become too salty for ordinary use.

Although an inland sea, with an immense area intervening between it and the nearest ocean, its waters are much more brackish and salty than those of either the Atlantic or the Pacific, and its specific gravity is far greater.