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Salineness. Carpenter.

Saline. [Obs.]

Salt; salted; saline. [R.]

uced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curin…

Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

nic acid, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it…