Definition of salt

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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..

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Solute :: Solute (a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt..
Sesquisalt :: Sesquisalt (n.) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound..
Sulphate :: Sulpharsenite (n.) A salt of sulpharsenious acid.
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) An acid salt.
Cyanurate :: Cyanurate (n.) A salt of cyanuric acid.
Whitleather :: Whitleather (n.) Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather..
Caproate :: Caproate (n.) A salt of caproic acid.
Bichromate :: Bichromate (n.) A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate..
Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..
Hoecake :: Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe..
Salify :: Salify (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with a salt.
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
Mix :: Mix (v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines..
Polychromate :: Polychromate (n.) A salt of a polychromic acid.
Hardness :: Hardness (n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes..
Gray :: Gray (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove..
Hypophosphite :: Hypophosphite (n.) A salt of hypophosphorous acid.
Brawn :: Brawn (n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar..
Oxalurate :: Oxalurate (n.) A salt of oxaluric acid.
Salse :: Salse (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name..
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