Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt..

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Halometer :: Halometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
Muriatiferous :: Muriatiferous (a.) Producing muriatic substances or salt.
Decrepitate :: Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting..
Succinuric :: Succinurate (n.) A salt of succinuric acid.
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..
Hydrotellurate :: Hydrotellurate (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Oxanilate :: Oxanilate (n.) A salt of oxanilic acid.
Kakaralli :: Kakaralli (n.) A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle..
Strike :: Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle..
Caproate :: Caproate (n.) A salt of caproic acid.
Pyromucate :: Pyromucate (n.) A salt of pyromucic acid.
Tellurite :: Tellurite (n.) A salt of tellurous acid.
Saturated :: Saturated (a.) Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt..
Saccharonate :: Saccharonate (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid.
Benzoate :: Benzoate (n.) A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt..
Lick :: Lick (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs..
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.
Boll :: Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels..
Fossil :: Fossil (a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt..
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