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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Mayonnaise :: Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce..
Lixivited :: Lixivited (a.) Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
Pork :: Pork (n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food..
Erbium :: Erbium (n.) A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.
Ammoniacal :: Ammoniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas..
Basic :: Basic (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper..
Sulphion :: Sulphinide (n.) A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates)..
Styphnic :: Styphnate (n.) A salt of styphnic acid.
Thalline :: Thalline (n.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents..
Junk :: Junk (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
Molybdate :: Molybdate (n.) A salt of molybdic acid.
Caproate :: Caproate (n.) A salt of caproic acid.
Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh..
Solvent :: Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc..
Lampate :: Lampate (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid.
Sorbate :: Sorbate (n.) A salt of sorbic acid.
Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (n.) A salt amygdalic acid.
Osmate :: Osmate (n.) A salt of osmic acid.
Saltigrade :: Saltigrade (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Subsalt :: Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
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