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Nitre, Niter n.

(Chem.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

(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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"Niter" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 ...

— David Lockwin--The People's Idol • John McGovern

... Betty. "And can't you see? There is no skull and cross-bones on this label. And all that was in the bottle was sweet spirits of niter. I'm sure that won't do ...

— Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp • Alice B. Emerson

... from the time our lines were formed. In this short space of time, one of the most important places in Confederacy fell, it being situated in the midst of their iron regions, was of itself a solid machine shop, where a large portion of their ordnance was made, together with their niter works. Some of the most formidable iron works on the continent were in this region, which also fell into our hands ...

— History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry • R. C. Rankin

... fell at Peshawur, India, June, 1893, during a storm: substance that looked like crystallized niter, and that tasted like sugar (Nature, ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... Violent Ghust of wind from the N. E. with Some rain, which lasted half an hour (G D. informs me that he Saw in a Pond on the S. S. which we passed yesterday; a number of young Swans-,) one man verry Sick, Struck with the Sun, Capt. Lewis bled him & gave Niter which ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al