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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Hemin :: Hemin (n.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin..
Saline :: Saline (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Saccharinate :: Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water..
Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (n.) A salt amygdalic acid.
Whitleather :: Whitleather (n.) Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather..
Hydrotellurate :: Hydrotellurate (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Psaltery :: Psaltery (n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known..
Styrax :: Styracin (n.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol..
Lactate :: Lactate (n.) A salt of lactic acid.
Salicylite :: Salicylite (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.
Acetate :: Acetate (n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash..
Touch-paper :: Touch-paper (n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like..
Crocus :: Crocus (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder..
Induline :: Induline (n.) A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black..
Dichromate :: Dichromate (n.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Pan :: Pan (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud..
Selenate :: Selenate (n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.
Rissoid :: Rissoid (n.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water..
Brackish :: Brackish (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil..
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