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A salt of pyroarsenic acid.

A salt of pyroboric acid.

A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.

A salt of pyromalic acid. [Obs.]

A salt of pyromucic acid.

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

or designating, an acid, H4P2O7, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. Its salts are obtained by heating the phosphates.

A salt of pyrosulphuric acid.

A salt of pyrotartaric acid.

Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.

A salt of quinic acid. [Written also kinate.]

a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

A salt of racemic acid.

Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Any kind of government monopoly (tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain.

eliquesce. [Obs.] He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope.

. If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt. Arbuthnot.

Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

s discharge, especially one from the eves or nose. I have a rheum in mine eyes too. Shak. Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.

A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate. [Obsoles.]