Meaning of உப்பு in English

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
To steep or saturate in brine.
To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
Beastly; brutal.
Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
To season with salt; to salt.
A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
Psalm.
Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.
Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.
The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
Marshes flooded by the tide.
Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
Leaping; jumping; dancing.
In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
To leap or dance.
A leaping or jumping.
Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.
An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to new races.
Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.
Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing.
of Salt
One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.
A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
See Saltire.
The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.
A salt marsh.
A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Somewhat salt.
With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
Somewhat salt; saltish.