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salt (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. — Double salt (Chem.), a salt regarded as
formed by the union of two distinct salts, as common alum, potassium aluminium sulphate. See under
Double. — Epsom salts. See in the Vocabulary. — Essential salt (Old Chem.), a salt obtained by
crystallizing plant juices. — Ethereal salt. (Chem.) See under Ethereal. — Glauber's salt or salts.
See in Vocabulary. — Haloid salt (Chem.), a simple salt of a halogen acid, as sodium chloride. —
Microcosmic salt. (Chem.). See under Microcosmic. — Neutral salt. (Chem.) (a) A salt in
which the acid and base (in theory) neutralize each other. (b) A salt which gives a neutral reaction.
— Oxy salt (Chem.), a salt derived from an oxygen acid. — Per salt (Old Chem.), a salt supposed
to be derived from a peroxide base or analogous compound. [Obs.] — Permanent salt, a salt which
undergoes no change on exposure to the air. — Proto salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a protoxide
base or analogous compound. — Rochelle salt. See under Rochelle. — Salt of amber (Old Chem.),
succinic acid. — Salt of colcothar (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or sulphate of iron. — Salt of hartshorn.
(Old Chem.) (a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride. (b) Ammonium carbonate. Cf. Spirit of hartshorn,
under Hartshorn. — Salt of lemons. (Chem.) See Salt of sorrel, below. — Salt of Saturn (Old
Chem.), sugar of lead; lead acetate; — the alchemical name of lead being Saturn. — Salt of Seignette.
Same as Rochelle salt. — Salt of soda (Old Chem.), sodium carbonate. — Salt of sorrel (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. — Salt of
tartar (Old Chem.), potassium carbonate; — so called because formerly made by heating cream of
tartar, or potassium tartrate. [Obs.] — Salt of Venus (Old Chem.), blue vitriol; copper sulphate; — the
alchemical name of copper being Venus. — Salt of wisdom. See Alembroth. — Sedative salt
(Old Med. Chem.), boric acid. — Sesqui salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a sesquioxide base or
analogous compound. — Spirit of salt. (Chem.) See under Spirit. — Sulpho salt (Chem.), a salt
analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.
Salt
(Salt) a. [Compar. Salter ; superl. Saltest.] [AS. sealt, salt. See Salt, n.]
1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as,
salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." Chaucer.
2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. Shak. 4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. Shak.
Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. — Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory.
Knight. — Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.
— Salt cake (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. — Salt fish.
(a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
(b) A marine fish. — Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the
production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. — Salt gauge, an
instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. — Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] — Salt
junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] — Salt lick. See Lick, n. — Salt marsh, grass land
subject to the overflow of salt water. — Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth
(Spilosoma acræa which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also
woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly. — Salt-marsh fleabane
(Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in
salt marshes. — Salt-marsh hen (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under Rail. — Salt- marsh terrapin
(Zoöl.), the diamond- back. — Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained. — Salt pan. (a) A
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