Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc.
- noun A dealer in dyestuffs, chemical products, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dealer insalted or driedmeats ,pickles ,sauces , etc., and in the materials used inpreservation .
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Examples
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The terms 'drysalter', a dealer in certain chemical products and foods, and 'alienism', the study and treatment of mental illness, have also faded from use.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Hill, Thomas (1760 – 1840): by trade a drysalter at Queenhithe, was also the editor of The Monthly
Index of People 2009
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In 1801, William Dyer, a drysalter, colorman, and correspondent of Joseph Priestley and other scientists in Britain, reduced fifty years of diary-keeping to two volumes of tantalizing abstracts about his work and interests. 11 As a result, we have only hints about his venture to produce and sell the pigment known as Spanish brown.
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Basic ingredients were easy to find as a part of traditional pharmacopoeia, in the storehouse of the drysalter or that of many artisans.
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Her name is Anna Maria (daughter of Higgs and Pettifer, solicitors, Bedford Row); but Hicks calls her “Ianthe” in his album verses, and is himself an eminent drysalter in the city.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006
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I am neither a felonious drysalter returned from exile, an hospital stump-turner, a decayed staymaker, a bankrupt printer, or insolvent debtor, released by act of parliament.
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At different times he sought employment as a dentist, a drysalter, and a book distributor; he sold small stationery as a travelling merchant, and ultimately became keeper of the refreshment booth at the Paisley railway station.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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He was the son of a drysalter, and early devoted himself to the study of chemistry in the only way at first at his disposal -- viz., in an apothecary's shop.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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He was a most respectable man -- a drysalter from nine to four, and a Presbyterian in his leisure moments.
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Tenby it was who made the discovery of him somewhere in the City, where he earned his livelihood either as a corn-merchant; or a stockbroker, or a chronometer-maker, or a drysalter, and was always willing to gratify a customer with the sight of his proofs of identity.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
qms commented on the word drysalter
I once was a sea salt exalter
But desiccant preferences alter.
At present I think
That Himalayan pink
Is key for the gourmet drysalter.
October 5, 2016