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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Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine..
Universalties :: Universalties (pl. ) of Universalit.
Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Oleate :: Oleate (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction..
Rosolic :: Rosolic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin..
Blote :: Blote (v. t.) To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat..
Patio :: Patio (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation..
Pork :: Pork (n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food..
Sulphophosphorous :: Sulphophosphoric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts..
Thiosulphate :: Thiosulphate (n.) A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
Metalline :: Metalline (a.) Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water..
Leucaniline :: Leucaniline (n.) A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts..
Element :: Element (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury..
Perchlorate :: Perchlorate (n.) A salt of perchloric acid.
Gabelle :: Gabelle (n.) A tax, especially on salt..
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..
Dulcify :: Dulcify (v. t.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony..
Lampate :: Lampate (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning..
Salt :: Salt (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
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