salt : Idioms & Phrases

• phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See Saltfoot.

  His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt. B. Jonson.

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• (Chem.) (a) A salt derived from an acid which has several replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals; as, acid potassium sulphate is an acid salt. (b) A salt, whatever its constitution, which merely gives an acid reaction; thus, copper sulphate, which is composed of a strong acid united with a weak base, is an acid salt in this sense, though theoretically it is a neutral salt.

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• (Chem.), a salt which gives an alkaline reaction, as sodium carbonate.

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• (Old Chem.), a salt of the oxy type, formerly regarded as composed of two oxides, an acid and a basic oxide. Obsolescent

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians.

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• the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.

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• (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.
• (Chem.) (a) A salt which contains more of the basic constituent than is required to neutralize the acid . (b) An alkaline salt.

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• noun a preparation that softens or scents a bath
  

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Bay" salt`

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1. 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. Bacon. Ure.

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• noun a salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids
  

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• (Chem.), a salt of the oxy type conveniently regarded as composed of two ingredients (analogously to a haloid salt), viz., a metal and an acid radical.

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• Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate.

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• noun hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures
  bitter salts.
  

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Black" salts`

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1. Crude potash. De Colange.

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Cat"-salt` noun

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1. A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

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• noun ground celery seed and salt
  

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• noun a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)
  sodium chloride.
  
• noun white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
  common salt; salt.
  

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• noun a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule
  

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• the chloride of potassium.

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• (Med.), potassium acetate; so called because of its diuretic properties.

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• noun a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization
  

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• . (Chem.) (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O . (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium.

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• noun hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures
  bitter salts.
  
• noun (used with a singular noun) hydrated magnesium sulfate used as a laxative
  

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• (Old Chem.), a salt obtained by crystalizing plant juices.

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• (Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a base; an ester.

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• noun ground dried garlic and salt
  

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• noun (Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a cathartic
  Glauber's salt.
  

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Glau"ber's salt`, Glau"ber's salts` (Also<

• Glauber's salt
• Glauber's salts

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Etymology

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1. Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts." ✍ It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as the mineral mirabilite. It is manufactured in large quantities as an intermediate step in the "soda process," and also for use in glass making.

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• . See in Vocabulary.

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• noun (Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a cathartic
  Glauber's salt.
  

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Glau"ber's salt`, Glau"ber's salts` (Also<

• Glauber's salt
• Glauber's salts

)

Etymology

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1. Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts." ✍ It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as the mineral mirabilite. It is manufactured in large quantities as an intermediate step in the "soda process," and also for use in glass making.

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• noun a salt desert in north central Iran
  Kavir Desert; Dasht-e-Kavir.
  

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• noun a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah
  

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• (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.

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Hair"-salt` noun

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1. (Min.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

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• (Chem.), a simple salt of a halogen acid, as sodium chloride.

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• (Old Chem.), salts which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them.

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• noun a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders
  low-sodium diet; low-salt diet.
  

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• noun a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxides
  

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• (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.

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• (Chem.), a salt of a mineral acid.

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Mon"sel's salt`

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1. (Med.) A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.

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• . (Chem.) (a A salt in which the acid and base (in theory) neutralize each other . (b) A salt which gives a neutral reaction.
• (Chem.), a salt formed by the complete replacement of the hydrogen in an acid or base; in the former case by a positive or basic, in the latter by a negative or acid, element or radical.

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• noun a man who serves as a sailor
  Jack-tar; tar; sea dog; seaman; gob; Jack; seafarer; mariner.
  

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• noun ground dried onion and salt
  

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• (Chem.), a salt derived from an oxygen acid.

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• noun a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark
  

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• (Old Chem.), a salt supposed to be derived from a peroxide base or analogous compound. Obs.

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• a salt which undergoes no change on exposure to the air.

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• (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.

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• (Old Med. Chem.), potassium sulphate, specifically obtained by fusing niter with sulphur.

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• (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by a base or basic radical.

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• (Chem.), a salt derived from a protoxide base or analogous compound.

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• (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.

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• noun a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic
  potassium sodium tartrate; Rochelle salt.
  

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• (Chem.), the double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

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• noun a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic
  potassium sodium tartrate; Rochelle salt.
  

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• noun naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
  halite.
  

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• (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities.

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• (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.

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• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  put in; stack away; hive away; stash away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

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• an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight.

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• a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. Western U.S. bartlett.

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• (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.

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• noun codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes
  

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• noun loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance
  

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• . (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food. (b) A marine fish.

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• noun a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water
  salt flat.
  

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• an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.

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• an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter.

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• salted beef. Slang

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• noun the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  

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• noun the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  

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• hard salt beef for use at sea. Slang

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• noun the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church
  capital of Utah.
  

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• noun a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
  lick.
  

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• . See Lick, n.

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• noun low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater
  

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• grass land subject to the overflow of salt water.

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• noun subshrub of southeastern United States to New York
  Kosteletzya virginica.
  

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• noun someone who makes or deals in salt
  salter.
  

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• noun a mine where salt is dug
  
• noun a job involving drudgery and confinement
  treadmill.
  

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• a mine where rock salt is obtained.

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• (Old Chem.), succinic acid.

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• (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or sulphate of iron.

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• . (Old Chem.) (a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride . (b) Ammonium carbonate Cf. Spirit of hartshorn, under Hartshorn.

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• . (Chem.) See Salt of sorrel, below.

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• (Old Chem.), sugar of lead; lead acetate; the alchemical of lead being Saturn.

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• . Same as Rochelle salt.

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• (Old Chem.), sodium carbonate.

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• (Old Chem.), acid potassium oxalate, or potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains; so called because found in the sorrel, or Oxalis. Also sometimes inaccurately called salt of lemon.

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• (Old Chem.), potassium carbonate; so called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate. Obs.

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• (Old Chem.), blue vitriol; copper sulphate; the alchemical name of copper being Venus.

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• . See Alembroth.

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• . (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works.

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• a pit where salt is obtained or made.

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• noun a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water
  salt flat.
  

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• noun fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt
  

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• one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.

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• noun tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows
  Spartina cynosuroides.
  

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Salt" rheum

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1. (Med.) A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.

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• a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. U.S.

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• noun rush of the Pacific coast of North America
  Juncus leseurii.
  

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• (Chem.), boracic acid. Obs.

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• noun a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt
  saltshaker.
  

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• a spring of salt water.

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• noun spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
  Halimodendron argenteum; Halimodendron halodendron.
  

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• (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia.

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• water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also tears.

  Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here. Shak.

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• adjective satellite (used especially of meats) preserved in salt
  salted; brine-cured.
  

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• noun a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders
  low-sodium diet; low-salt diet.
  

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Salt"-green adjective

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1. Sea-green in color. Shak.

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• (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acreæ which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also wooly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly.

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• (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes.

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• (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.

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• (Zoöl.), the diamond-back.

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• noun white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp
  

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• an ocean mariner.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Bluefish.

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Sea" salt`

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1. Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.

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• noun combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate
  

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• (Old Med. Chem.), boric acid.

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• (Chem.), a salt derived from a sesquioxide base or analogous compound.

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• noun a pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness
  

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• salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts.

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• noun crystals of citric acid used as seasoning
  

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• (Chem.), hydrochloric acid; so called because obtained from salt and sulphuric acid. Obs.

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• (Chem.), a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.

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• (Chem.), a salt of a sulphacid; a sulphosalt.

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• noun white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
  common salt; salt.
  

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• an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.

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• to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. Cant

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• to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

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• (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt.

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• (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

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• salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.

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