Word Meanings - SALTERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

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• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• WHERESOE'ER
  Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• WHERESO
  Wheresoever.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• WHEREUNTO
  See WHERETO
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• WHEREUPON
  Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.