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noun
Nitre, Niter  n.  
1.
(Chem.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
2.
(Chem.) Native sodium carbonate; natron. (Obs.) "For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me."
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.





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... desire so many appurtenances of life that were in David Lockwin's quarters? If we find Chalmers housed in comfortable apartments at Gramercy Square, is it not inconsistent that he should gradually supply himself with cough medicine, turpentine, alcohol, ammonia, niter, mentholine, camphor spirits, cholagogue, cholera mixture, whisky, oil, acid, salves and all the aids to health and cleanliness by which David Lockwin flourished? How slight an annoyance is the lack of that old-time prescription of Dr. ...
— David Lockwin--The People's Idol • John McGovern


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