Sal

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  • noun. Salt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A large gregarious tree, Shorea robusta, natural order Dipterocarpeæ, of northern India.
  • noun. Salt: a word much used by the older chemists and in pharmacy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.
  • noun. Salt.
  • noun. an impure potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium).
  • noun. salt of sorrel.
  • noun. See Alembroth.
  • noun. ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, a white crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia.
  • noun. Epsom salts.
  • noun. common salt, or sodium chloride.
  • noun. See Sal ammoniac above.
  • noun. potassium sulphate; -- so called because erroneously supposed to be composed of two salts, one acid and one alkaline.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. potassium acetate.
  • noun. acid potassium sulphate.
  • noun. common salt occuring native.
  • noun. salt tin, or stannic chloride; -- the alchemical name of tin being Jove.
  • noun. green vitriol, or ferrous sulphate; -- the alchemical name of iron being Mars.
  • noun. See Microcosmic salt, under Microcosmic.
  • noun. sugar of lead.
  • noun. See Prunella salt, under 1st Prunella.
  • noun. sugar of lead, or lead acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn.
  • noun. sedative salt, or boric acid.
  • noun. Rochelle salt.
  • noun. sodium carbonate. See under Sodium.
  • noun. white vitriol; zinc sulphate.
  • noun. Spirits of ammonia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
  • noun. salt
  • Word Usage
    "Second Book rendering _salis avarus_ by _de sal avariento_ -- the second person singular of the present indicative of the verb _salire_ being mistaken for the genitive of the substantive _sal_ [271] -- we may perhaps conclude that a boyish exercise has somehow escaped destruction."
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    Al  Cal  Chagall  Duval  Gal  
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    Salt  
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    Saul