SHELLBACKS Synonyms

• any member of a ship's crew

• a serviceman in the navy

• a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

• negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

• a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

• white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

• the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

• (of speech) painful or bitter

• add salt to

• sprinkle as if with salt

• add zest or liveliness to

• preserve with salt

• a man who serves as a sailor

• any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

• a man who serves as a sailor

• coat with tar

• a man who serves as a sailor

• marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

• European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north