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A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.

A salt of vanadic acid. [Formerly also vanadiate.]

logous to phosphoric acid, not known in the free state but forming a well-known series of salts.

A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.

A salt of vanillic acid.

nt morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), a crystalline growth of an arborescent form.

The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

A salt of veratric acid.

In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also vivda.] Jamieson.

box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.

white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.

hich have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.

A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

eries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting. -- Wash bottle. (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing s…

, etc. -- Washing fluid, a liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action. -- Washing machine, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes. -- Washing soda. (Chem.) See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. -- Washing stuff, any earthy deposit c…

or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.

A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.]

A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.