Lye; water impregnated with alkaline salts imbibed from wood ashes. It is sometimes applied to other extracts.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.
Liquefaction Roget’s Thesaurus §335
N. liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation|, colliquefaction|, thaw, liquation|, deliquation|, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest
V. render liquid, liquefy, run, deliquesce, melt, solve, dissolve, resolve, liquate|, hold in solution, condense, precipitate, rain
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