Definition of salt

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Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber..

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Titanate :: Titanate (n.) A salt of titanic acid.
Salse :: Salse (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name..
Mesoxalate :: Mesoxalate (n.) A salt of mesoxalic acid.
Tannate :: Tannate (n.) A salt of tannic acid.
Chromatype :: Chromatype (n.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
Isosulphocyanate :: Isosulphocyanate (n.) A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.
Chelerythrine :: Chelerythrine (n.) An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine..
Base :: Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids..
Gabelle :: Gabelle (n.) A tax, especially on salt..
Sauter :: Sauter (n.) Psalter.
Sea :: Sea (n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea..
Protosalt :: Protosalt (n.) A salt derived from a protoxide base.
Drysalter :: Drysalter (n.) A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs..
Azotite :: Azotite (n.) A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite..
Wolframate :: Wolframate (n.) A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
Bead :: Bead (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc..
Powdered :: Powdered (a.) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.
Phenolate :: Phenolate (n.) A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay..
Trap :: Trap (n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock..
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