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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Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue..
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.
Saturated :: Saturated (a.) Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt..
Basic :: Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
Silicofluoride :: Silicofluoride (n.) A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
Subsannation :: Subsalt (n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.
Saltatorious :: Saltatorious (a.) Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg..
Salination :: Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.
Metatungstic :: Metatungstic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid..
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..
Saltarella :: Saltarella (n.) See Saltarello.
Sulpharsenite :: Sulpharsenious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenious acid) analogous to arsenious acid, and known only in its salts..
Mesaconate :: Mesaconate (n.) A salt of mesaconic acid.
Sulpharsenate :: Sulphantimonite (n.) A salt of sulphantimonious acid.
Vanadate :: Vanadate (n.) A salt of vanadic acid.
Alcoholate :: Alcoholate (n.) A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization..
Xanthogenate :: Xanthogenate (n.) A salt of xanthic acid.
Amphid :: Amphid (n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound..
Muriate :: Muriate (n.) A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia..
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