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nitre

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Noun
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ni=tre

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nitre has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

nitren. [F. nitre, L. nitrum native soda, natron, Gr. ; cf. Ar. nit, natr natron. Cf. Natron.].
  •  A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Native sodium carbonate; natron.  [1913 Webster]
    "For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me."  [1913 Webster]
Cubic niter, a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chile, whence it is known also as Chile saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.
nitren. 
     See Niter.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nitre, n. (US niter) saltpetre, potassium nitrate.

Etymology
ME f. OF f. L nitrum f. Gk nitron, of Semitic orig.

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