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Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.

A salt of polytungstic acid.

The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.] Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.

a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. (a) A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] Shak.

substance, one of the constituents of didymium; - - so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.

To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes. You can not preserve it from tainting. Shak.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

also been used in like manner, but of these the last two only are now in use. -- Primary salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by a base or basic radical. -- Primary syphilis (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis, including the period from the develo…

gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as sulphate of copper. -- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. Burrill. -- In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed. -- Jury…

A salt of propiolic acid.

A salt of propionic acid.

acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.

Thrush. Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.

d by adding a solution of potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate of potash) to a ferric salt. It is used in dyeing, in ink, etc. Called also Williamson's blue, insoluble Prussian blue, Berlin blue, etc. -- Prussian carp (Zoöl.) See Gibel. -- Prussian green. (Chem.) Same as Berlin green, under Berlin.…

A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide. Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide, under Ferrocyanide.

A salt of purpuric acid.

A salt of pyroantimonic acid.