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a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. -- Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.

A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

d with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0º in pure water, and to 15º in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued alon…

Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

ng to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

nes, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

d from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.

A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.

A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.