Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

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Caviar :: Caviar (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia..
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) An acid salt.
Sulphocyanate :: Sulphocarbonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts..
Tachylyte :: Tachylyte (n.) A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
Saline :: Saline (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine..
Cyamellone :: Cyamellone (n.) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid..
Amphid :: Amphid (n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound..
Sea :: Sea (n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea..
Thallate :: Thallate (n.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Borax :: Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O..
Salination :: Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.
Metastannate :: Metastannate (n.) A salt of metastannic acid.
Lithate :: Lithate (n.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.
Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt..
Supersaturate :: Supersalt (n.) An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n..
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.
Saliferous :: Saliferous (a.) Producing, or impregnated with, salt..
Fresh :: Fresh (superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted..
Salt :: salt () 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..
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