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Found: 12,563 words.
Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.
The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.
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Salify
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To combine or impregnate with a salt.
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A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.
The water chestnut (Trapa natans).
An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.
The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.
Salina
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A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.
The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
The act of washing with salt water.
Saline
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A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
The quality or state of being salt; saltness.
Same as Saliferous.
Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.
Salineness.
A salimeter.
Saline.
Salic.
A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.
The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).
Salite
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A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
The secretion from the salivary glands.
Salivary.
Salivant
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Producing salivation.
Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
Salivate
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To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
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The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.
Salix
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A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.
An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
Sallet
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A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.
Salad.
Salience.
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Sallow
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A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
Somewhat sallow.
The quality or condition of being sallow.
Sally
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A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.
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The velella; -- called also saleeman.
Psalm.
Salmagundi
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A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
Same as Salmis.
Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.