Saline

Saline - Other Definitions

• (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.