nitre

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ni=tre

CIDE DICTIONARY

nitre, n. [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.

nitre, n. 

 See Niter.  [1913 Webster]