·add. ·- Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
·noun Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, ·etc. II. Alkali ·add. ·noun Soluble mineral matter, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. II. Waste ·v Old or abandoned workings, whethe...
House of waste; a tavern or alehouse, where idle people waste both their time and money. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
a consumption. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...
·add. ·- Any one of various soils found in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount o...