(a) A salt-water well or spring; also, a well or pit from which salt was obtained; (b) in surnames and place names. …

(a) A natural source of water, forming a fountain, pool, or stream; a natural spring; the water produced or contained in such a spring or pool; also fig. and in fig. context; also, a fabulous or……

(a) The plant watercress (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum); also, the plant fenugreek;—prob. the European Trigonella foenum-graecum, but possibly its British relative, Trifolium ornithopodioides (b)……