salt

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salt[1,noun] salt[2,adjective] bile salt common salt Epsom salt Glauber's salt low-salt diet normal salt solution physiological saline Reinecke salt Rochelle salt salt out Seignette salt table salt

Main Entry: ¹salt
Pronunciation: slt
Function: noun
1 a : a crystalline compound NaCl that is the chloride of sodium, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry -- called also common salt, sodium chloride b : a substance (as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt c : any of numerous compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or a group acting like a metal : an ionic crystalline compound
2 salts plural a : a mineral or saline mixture (as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic b : SMELLING SALTS