Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) 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..

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Drysalter :: Drysalter (n.) A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs..
Sea Dog :: Sea dog () An old sailor; a salt.
Argol :: Argol (n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks..
Saline :: Saline (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste..
Vanillate :: Vanillate (n.) A salt of vanillic acid.
Saltatorial :: Saltatorial (a.) Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises..
Salter :: Salter (n.) One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish..
Caviar :: Caviar (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia..
Anhydrous :: Anhydrous (a.) Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids..
Freshen :: Freshen (v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
Brawn :: Brawn (n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar..
Salt :: Salt (n.) 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..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water..
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..
Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.
Whitleather :: Whitleather (n.) Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather..
Polytungstate :: Polytungstate (n.) A salt of polytungstic acid.
Tautog :: Tautog (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll..
Basalt :: Basalt (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain..
Oenanthic :: Oenanthic (a.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. Oenanthylic..
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