Definition of salt

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of salt is as below...

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..

Lern More About Salt

Saltate :: Saltate (v. i.) To leap or dance.
Resinate :: Resinate (n.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt..
Nasoturbinal :: Nasoturbinal (a.) Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelae of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal..
Pyromucate :: Pyromucate (n.) A salt of pyromucic acid.
Chromite :: Chromite (n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.
Powder :: Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat..
Tellurate :: Tellurate (n.) A salt of telluric acid.
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water..
Bromate :: Bromate (n.) A salt of bromic acid.
Stethograph :: Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti..
Succinamic :: Succinamate (n.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.
Salicylic :: Salicylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid..
Solute :: Solute (a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt..
Thallate :: Thallate (n.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc..
Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..
Salicylite :: Salicylite (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us