Saline
['seɪlaɪn] or ['selin]
Definition
(adj.) containing salt; 'a saline substance '; 'salty tears' .
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
(a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
(a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
(n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
(n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Briny.
n. Salt-spring, salt-pit.
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Definition
adj. consisting of or containing salt: partaking of the qualities of salt.—n. an effervescent powder used as a gentle aperient: a salt-spring.—ns. Salī′na salt-works; Salinā′tion the act of washing in salt liquor; Sal′ine Sal′in a salt reddish substance obtained from the ashes of potato-leaves; Saline′ness.—adjs. Salinif′erous; Salin′iform.—ns. Salin′ity; Salinom′eter Salim′eter a hydrometer for measuring the amount of salt in any given solution.—adj. Salī′no-terrene′ composed of salt and earth.—v.t. Sal′ite to season with salt.—n. Sal′itral a place where saltpetre occurs.
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Examples
- On the 30th of April, the enemy attacked him while crossing Saline River at Jenkins's Ferry, but was repulsed with considerable loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was as good a thing for his spirit as a saline injection is for a man who has suffered a great hemorrhage. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There, don't speak, can you swallow a saline draught? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The water of most of these is potable, but a few are a little saline, though not to such an extent as to influence vegetation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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