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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 sul…

To saturate. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation. -- Sat`u*ra*bil"i*ty, n.

A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.

One who, or that which, saturates.

The state of being saturated; fullness of supply. [Obs.] Warner.

ternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. Hammond. Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. Coleridge.

Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]

An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. [Obs.]

Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.

Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

eatures of the moon; - - corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. "Accurate selenography, or description of the moon." Sir T. Browne.

Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.

To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

use sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated. Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon. Keats. Mixing sirup. See the Note under Dextrose.

g slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails. -- Slate clay (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. -- Slate globe, a globe the surface of which is m…

Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. Kane.

To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.