SALINE

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

2.
a.

Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.

3.
n.

A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

4.
n.

A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. [Written also salin.]

5.
n.

A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.


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