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A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.

One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper. [U. S. & Scot.]

One who depends on merit for salvation. [Obs.] Milner.

A salt of mesaconic acid.

A salt of mesitylenic acid.

A salt of mesoxalic acid.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]

A salt of metantimonic acid.

A salt of metaphosphoric acid.

A salt of metasilicic acid.

A salt of metastannic acid.

ll or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

A salt of metatungstic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

A salt of metavanadic acid.

A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.

A salt of methionic acid.

, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts.

Of or pertaining to the microcosm. Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metal…