Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass..

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Crocus :: Crocus (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder..
Thallate :: Thallate (n.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Citrate :: Citrate (n.) A salt of citric acid.
Bisilicate :: Bisilicate (n.) A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
Waterhorse :: Waterhorse (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
Salting :: Salting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sal.
Halite :: Halite (n.) Native salt; sodium chloride.
Augite :: Augite (n.) A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene..
Subsalt :: Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
Salt :: Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
Fungate :: Fungate (n.) A salt of fungic acid.
Decrepitation :: Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting..
Water Dog :: Water dog () A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt..
Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Succinyl :: Succinuric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts..
Wacky :: Wacky (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt..
Salt :: Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles..
Amphigen :: Amphigen (n.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium..
Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..
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