salinous
English
editAdjective
editsalinous (comparative more salinous, superlative most salinous)
- (obsolete) saline
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors:
- We do not easily ascribe their induration to cold; but rather unto salinous spirits and concretive juices.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “salinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)