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One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

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

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

brews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

al instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

omach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. Hook.

Psalter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Psaltery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A psaltery. [Obs.] Dryden.