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Hard salted beef supplied to ships. Junk bottle , a stout bottle made of thick dark-colored glass. -- Junk dealer, a dealer in old cordage, old metal, glass, etc. -- Junk hook (Whaling), a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck. -- Junk ring. (a) A packing of soft material round the piston of a steam engin…

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.

To take the form of kernels; to granulate. [Obs.] It is observed that rain makes the salt kern. Dampier.

s of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.

Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.] Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]

A salt of lactic acid.

he materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle.

A supposed salt of lampic acid. [Obs.]

A salt of lauric acid.

foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. -- Mock lead, a miner's term for blende. -- Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides…

e used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider (Zoöl.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.

used in perfumery. -- Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; -- called also salis of sorrel. It i…

permaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

e, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.

A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. [U. S.]

va vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

A salt of linoleic acid.