There's a stuff called sweet spirits of niter, which is, I think, used in kidney ailments. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Anthracite coal and niter heated in a crucible exploded when. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Mrs.B. appears some better. took a doass Magnetia and spirit of niter. 18. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
Epsom salts, niter and alum have been obtained from the earth of the cave. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
He asked where was Hephaistion; but the embalmers had him, steeped in niter. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Thus, nitrogen means the producer of niter, nitrogen being a constituent of niter or saltpeter. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Mass., has made a steel covered projectile which he prevents from rusting by blackening by a niter process. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
Back during the campaign of 2000 ( "Ahma YOU-niter, notta DEE-vider") Don Imus told his listeners one morning. From Wordnik.com. [Georgie in La La Land] Reference
I returned the wig because because of the TMI exposition slam Gawker ran about a one-niter O'Donnell had two years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Susanna Speier: Mid Term Election Anxiety & Halloween Politiku] Reference
When they had finished their meal, glass was found to have been made from the niter and sea-sand by the heat of their fire. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
We therefore conclude, that either the niter or the small excess of potassium bromide, or both together, produce the change. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
It is a white, crystallizable salt of a taste resembling that of niter, soluble in water and alcohol, and extremely poisonous. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference
This process has been made possible by the discovery of the Chili niter beds and the potassium chloride of the Stassfurt deposits. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Sodium chloride is very largely soluble in the liquid; powdered niter melts at once in contact with it, and the two liquids then mix. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
If there is fever with the cold, five drops of sweet spirit of niter may be given in a teaspoonful of sweetened water every two hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Carolina, a region which had no niter-caves in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
The phantoms nearer came; their flower, as an urn of burning niter. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
Probably extract their niter from the dung of their horses and cows. From Wordnik.com. [The Return] Reference
This niter-soaked fabric I thought might serve as tinder for the spark. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of a Man] Reference
He established artificial niter beds at Richmond, Columbus, Charleston. From Wordnik.com. [The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis] Reference
Chihuahua abounds in niter and other salts, and is rich in mines of gold and silver. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam] Reference
Then they leached it, pouring water on it in improvised tubs, and dissolving the niter. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference
The niter was obtained from lixiviation of nitrous earth found under old houses, barns, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
Savannah, Mobile and Selma of sufficient capacity to supply the niter needed in the powder mills. From Wordnik.com. [The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis] Reference
Rota in una Affifienfi Beneficii p.Mart. 1587; coram OiranOj Glofia cdmmu - niter recefta in cap. From Wordnik.com. [Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ...] Reference
Aconite may be given in conjunction with the niter when the heart is greatly excited and beats strongly. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Though you wash with niter, or with much soap, those deep-dyed marks of iniquity can not be thus cleansed away. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity] Reference
Thus the niter production, in the course of a year, was brought up to something like half of the total consumption. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
Usually the niter will relieve the constipation; yet if it should prove obstinate, laxatives may be carefully given. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
niter was to be obtained from caves and other like sources, and by the formation of niter-beds, some of which had previously been begun at. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
Instinct with fire and niter, "fell at once with the rise of the science of thermodynamics. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
(not ground) raw beef, flavored with niter kibbeh (a herb infused clarified butter), mitmita. From Wordnik.com. [mmm-yoso!!!] Reference
Itteh bitteh kitteh komitteh pulld an awl-niter. From Wordnik.com. [Dad kitteh, put just a drop of scotch on da kibble - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
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