Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt..

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Cyanate :: Cyanate (n.) A salt of cyanic acid.
Gtraystone :: Gtraystone (n.) A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt..
Mellitate :: Mellitate (n.) A salt of mellitic acid.
Malate :: Malate (n.) A salt of malic acid.
Crepitate :: Crepitate (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap..
Oenanthic :: Oenanthic (a.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. Oenanthylic..
Deliquescent :: Deliquescent (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts..
Monsel''s Salt :: Monsel's salt () A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman..
Psalter :: Psalter (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms..
Bay Salt :: Bay salt () Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce..
Polychromate :: Polychromate (n.) A salt of a polychromic acid.
Ferricyanate :: Ferricyanate (n.) A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Saltpetrous :: Saltpetrous (a.) Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter..
Meadow :: Meadow (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay..
Xylate :: Xylate (n.) A salt of xylic acid.
Humate :: Humate (n.) A salt of humic acid.
Brackishness :: Brackishness (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt..
Oxamic :: Oxamic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia..
Salt :: Salt (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt..
Mucate :: Mucate (n.) A salt of mucic acid.
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