It is a movement. (1) Peter, petrify, petrol, stormy petrel, petroleum, saltpeter, pier; (2) petrology, parsley, samphire.

Pearlash, swallowing; cold skin; Saltpeter.

niter, saltpeter, brine.

ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter

For a few weeks' preservation of organic objects in their original form, dimensions, and color, Prof. Grawitz recommends a mixture composed of 2½ ounces of chloride of sodium, 2¾ drachms of saltpeter, and 1 pint of water, to which is to be added 3 per cent. of boric acid.

In Glasgow he embarked as second mate on an old sailing tramp that was bound for Chile, to unload coal in Valparaiso and take on saltpeter in Iquique.

While his ship finished loading its cargo in Iquique, he came in contact with the crowd of workers from the saltpeter works,"broken-down" [originally a term of contempt is now a complimentary by-name] Chileans, laboring men from all countries, who did not know how to spend their day's wages in the monotony of these new settlements.

The unloaded cargoes piled up the same articles on the principal docks,wheat, much wheat, sulphur and saltpeter for the composition of explosive material.

Another style of torch consists of a cardboard cylinder fitted with a composition consisting of 100 parts of saltpeter, 60 of sulphur, 8 of priming powder, and 30 of pulverized glass, the whole sifted and well mixed.

The priming is effected by means of a tin tube filled with a composition consisting of three parts of priming powder, two of sulphur, and one of saltpeter.

The balls, one and a half inch in diameter, are charged with a composition consisting of twelve parts of saltpeter, eight of sulphur, four of priming powder, two of sawdust, two of beeswax, and two of tallow.

In a similar manner, if yet not so intensely, operated saltpeter and coffeine, as also urea and pilocarpine.

It gave much annoyance to the Rebels by destroying the saltpeter works on the upper portion of White River.

The saltpeter manufactories along the banks of this stream were of great importance to the Rebels in the Southwest, and their destruction seriously reduced the supplies of gunpowder in the armies of Arkansas and Louisiana.

The saltpeter caves along the White River can furnish sufficient saltpeter for the entire Southwest.

The saltpeter caves along the White River can furnish sufficient saltpeter for the entire Southwest.

Both salt and saltpeter are employed as preservatives for butter; a large quantity of the former is often used to increase the weight of the butter.

One of the most common methods is that of immersion in a brine made of a solution of common salt to which a small portion of saltpeter has been added.

Now they were conscious of plains all whitened with saltpeter, now of scudding sand-pillarswind-jinnee of the Empty Abodesthat danced and mocked them.