a (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
a (linguistics) Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin (term|lang=la|ipse||self) instead of the Latin (term|lang=la|ille||that).