Bay salt () Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun |
Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self |
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance |
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it |
Bearing (n.) Purport |
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth |
Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports |
Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span |
Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing |
Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. |
Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up |
Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine. |
salt () Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities |
Glauber's salt () Alt. of Glauber's salts |
Hair-salt (n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Monsel's salt () A basic sulphate of iron |
Rush-bearing (n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
Saline (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt |
Saline (a.) Of the quality of salt |
Saline (a.) A salt spring |
Saline (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. |
Saline (n.) A metallic salt |
Salinous (a.) Saline. |
Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles. |
Salt (n.) Hence, flavor |
Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy |
Salt (n.) A dish for salt at table |
Salt (n.) A sailor |
Salt (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base |
Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error |
Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt. |
Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide. |
Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt |
Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Bitter |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Salacious |
Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt |
Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. |
Salt (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution |
Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping |
Salt-green (a.) Sea-green in color. |
Salt rheum () A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema. |
Salty (a.) Somewhat salt |