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A salt of sacchulmic acid.

ure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. McElrath.

Salt. Sal absinthii Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), an impure potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium). -- Sal acetosell\'91 Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt of sorrel. -- Sal alembroth. (Old Chem.) See Alembroth. -- Sal ammoniac (Chem.), ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, a white crystalline vola…

ration of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

Aërated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is lagerly used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparatio…

A salt of salicylic acid.

m phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.

A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.…

Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

To combine or impregnate with a salt.

An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution. [Written also salometer.]

The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.

A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

The act of washing with salt water. [R. & Obs..] Greenhill.

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.

To season with salt; to salt. [Obs.]

Salt; salted; saline. [R.]