salted

Adjective

salted (not comparable)

1. To which salt has been added.
   • salted peanuts
   • Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*!1999 April 6, Pat Kiewicz, rec.gardens.edible (Usenet)
2. (South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
   • 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 May 10, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 131