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Salubrity; wholesome quality. Wiseman.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

se are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. -- Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work. -- Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

The act of bestowing; disposal.

To come to pass; to happen; to occur. A salve for any sore that may betide. Shak.

Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

ng to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

Of or pertaining to the sale of books. "Bibliopolic difficulties." Carlyle.

A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

nes, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

d from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

rinted, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.

A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.

A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.

A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.