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sal

 (săl)
n.
Salt.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sāl; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]
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sal

(sæl)
n
(Pharmacology) a pharmacological term for salt3
[Latin]
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sal

(sæl)

n.
Pharm. salt.
[< Latin sāl; see salt1]
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Translations

sal

[sæl]
A. Nsal f
B. CPD sal ammoniac Nsal f amoníaca
sal volatile Nsal f volátil
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sal

abbr of salaryGeh.
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Now the white road to Delhi is mat for his feet, The sal and the kikar must guard him from heat; His home is the camp, and the waste, and the crowd-- He is seeking the Way as bairagi avowed!
But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes --it's a nice bed: Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
One of her delights was to learn from me scraps of Horace, and then bring them into her conversation with 'colleged men.' I have come upon her in lonely places, such as the stair-head or the east room, muttering these quotations aloud to herself, and I well remember how she would say to the visitors, 'Ay, ay, it's very true, Doctor, but as you know, "Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni,"' or 'Sal, Mr.
"This is Bermondsey Sal," said one police officer, bending over the bedraggled heap of tattered shawl and dirty skirt.
"Raymond is a witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night.
Lady Lundie, my dear, prostrate in her own room--too much sal volatile.
Mrs Kenwigs was so overpowered by this supposition, that it needed all the tender attentions of Miss Petowker, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, to restore her to anything like a state of calmness; not to mention the assiduity of Mr Kenwigs, who held a fat smelling- bottle to his lady's nose, until it became matter of some doubt whether the tears which coursed down her face were the result of feelings or SAL VOLATILE.
Sal volatile and water followed, to compose dear Mr.
The Gauchos call the former the "Padre del sal," and the latter the "Madre;" they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.
Sals is situated in the Shahbaz commercial area in the same lane as Pomo.
SALS President, Reverend Jonathan Nicole, while speaking with newsmen in Lagos recently, noted that transfer of containers from Lagos port to Kaduna via road is quite expensive, thus not workable for importers.
KLONDYKE LOVE (4.00 WIND).; HONESTY (4.30 WIND); ROYALE (4.50 SALS).PERFECT QUEST (9-0) Sep 5 Edge (9-2), 10 PERFECT QUEST no progress over 2f out, well ROSTOVA (9-0) Sep 26 Aljuljalah (9-0), 4 ROSTOVA (2f out, soon one pace (5/1); SECRET SENSE (9-0) Sep 21 PS4,270: 1 Queen's Trust (9-0), ran green in midfield, ridden plugged on same pace after WINDMILLS GIRL (9-0) Sep slow, PS4,270: 1 Barleysugar Beschizza) midfield but never KLONDYKE FREE TO LOVE (4.00 WIND); SHEER HONESTY (4.30 WIND); ROSIE ROYALE (4.50 SALS).