Category:Saline

Sa"line ( or ; 277), a. Etym: [f. salin, fr. L. sal salt: cf. L. Salinae salt works, salinum saltcellar. See salt.]

1. Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; Saline substances; a saline cathartic.

2. Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.

Saline Sa"line ( or ; 277), n. Etym: [cf. F. saline. See saline, a.]

Defn: a salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the Earth.

Saline Sal"ine, n.

1. (chem.)

Defn: a crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other Similar sources. [written also salin.]

2. (med. Chem.)

Defn: a metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or Magnesium, used in medicine.