Salt, sodium chloride; also, a mineral salt [quot.: a1449]; ~ commune, common salt, sodium chloride; ?also, meconic acid [see Hammond English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey 486]; ~ preparat, ?refined salt; brent ~, salt treated with fire or heat.

In cpds. and combs.: (a) ~ alembroth, double chloride of mercury and ammonium; ~ alkali, a saline substance obtained from the calcined ashes of plants, soda, potash; ~ almetre, ?= sal nitre, q.v.; ~ alter, ?= ~ atinkar; ~ amarus [see quot.: a1475]; ~ atinkar, borax; ~ de ver, a saline scum which occurs in the process of glassmaking [cp. saun-de-ver(e n.]; ~ gemme, q.v.; ~ maritimum, sea salt; ~ nitre, ~ petre, q.v.; ~ sode, crystalized sodium carbonate; ~ tartar, potassium carbonate; ~ vitre, ?vitriol, a sulphate of various metals; ?= ~ de ver; ?= sal nitre, q.v.; (b) ~ armoniak, ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac [see also armoniak n.(b)]; (c) ~ fel, ?a hide preserved with salt; ~ fish, salted fish [1st quot.]; (d) in place names.