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Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

Crude potash. De Colange.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

ite crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.

A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]

A salt derived from a protoxide base. [Obs.]

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

brews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.