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Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

Moderately saline or salt.

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.

Water saturated or strongly inpregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

ry temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

ial which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] -- Congress water, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.

osion. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.

etermining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

termining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base. [R.]

ores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

sh (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.

sumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.

double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

Saline [Obs.]