Definition of salt

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Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle..

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Osmiamic :: Osmiamic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts..
Tropeine :: Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
Tartrate :: Tartrate (n.) A salt of tartaric acid.
Gtraystone :: Gtraystone (n.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt..
Metastannate :: Metastannate (n.) A salt of metastannic acid.
Bittern :: Bittern (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains..
Sulphophosphoric :: Sulphophosphite (n.) A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.
Boilery :: Boilery (n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making..
Thiosulphate :: Thiosulphate (n.) A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
Cyclops :: Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda..
Salify :: Salify (v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid..
Saltier :: Saltier (n.) See Saltire.
Harness Cask :: Harness cask () A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.
Picrate :: Picrate (n.) A salt of picric acid.
Resinate :: Resinate (n.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
Chrysotype :: Chrysotype (n.) A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Souse :: Souse (n.) Pickle made with salt.
Test :: Test (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt..
Quinate :: Quinate (n.) A salt of quinic acid.
Euxanthin :: Euxanthin (n.) A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow..
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