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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Xylate :: Xylate (n.) A salt of xylic acid.
Naphthalate :: Naphthalate (n.) A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate.
Decrepitation :: Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting..
Tetrathionate :: Tetrathionate (n.) A salt of tetrathionic acid.
Sea :: Sea (n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee..
Universalties :: Universalties (pl. ) of Universalit.
Saltigrade :: Saltigrade (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey..
Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..
Disulphate :: Disulphate (n.) A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate.
Epsom Salts :: Epsom salts () Alt. of sal.
Saltatorious :: Saltatorious (a.) Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg..
Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Salt :: Salt (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
Bisulphite :: Bisulphite (n.) A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.
Tartronate :: Tartronate (n.) A salt of tartronic acid.
Sulphauric :: Sulphaurate (n.) A salt of sulphauric acid.
Bichromate :: Bichromate (n.) A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate..
Globulin :: Globulin (n.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions..
Saccharinate :: Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid.
Cyamellone :: Cyamellone (n.) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid..
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