विड

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

विड  mn.  mn. a kind of salt (either factitious salt, procured by boiling earth impregnated with saline particles, or a partic. kind of fetid salt used medicinally as a tonic aperient, commonly called Vit-lavan or Bit-noben cf. विड्-लवण; it is black in colour and is prepared by fusing fossil silt with a small portion of Emblic Myrobalan, the product being muriate of soda with small quantities of muriate of lime, sulphur, and oxide of iron), [Suśr.]
विड  m.  m. N. of a country and its king, [Inscr.]
a fragment, bit, portion (?), [W.]

Shabda-Sagara

विड  n.  ( -डं)
1. Factitious salt, or salt procured by boiling soil found near the sea-shore, or any earth impregnated with saline particles. [Page655-b+ 60] 2. A particular fetid kind of salt, used as a tonic aperient, com- monly called black salt or Vit-lavaṇ, prepared by fusing fossile- salt with a small portion of Emblic myrobalans; the produce is muriate of soda with small quantities of muriate of lime, sulphur and oxid of iron.
3. A part, a fracture, a bit.
E. विड् to divide, aff. क .

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विड् क .