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A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. [R.]

Growing in brackish places or in salt marches.

A salt of santonic acid.

A salt of santoninic acid.

- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.

conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.

llow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.

on, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.

ys, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. Beverly.

Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

Psalter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Psaltery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A psaltery. [Obs.] Dryden.

A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.

An old sailor; a salt. [Colloq.]

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

A pool of salt water. Spenser.