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Kali

noun

Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash. Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort.

Wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi.

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"Kali" Quotes from Famous Books

... and high seasoned dishes of every description. The constant use of barley bread is recommended, with large doses of powdered ginger boiled in milk for breakfast. Absorbent powders of two scruples of magnesia, and three or four grains each of rhubarb and purified kali, should be taken during the intervals of gouty fits, and repeated every other morning for several weeks. The feet should be kept warm, sinapisms frequently applied to them, and the part affected should be covered ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... North-East. After three miles low outcrops of limestone appeared at intervals, the scrub in the trough of the ridges became more open with an undergrowth of coarse grass, buck-bush or "Roly-Poly" (SALSOLA KALI) and low acacia. Hugging the ridge on our left, we followed along this belt for another one and a half miles; when, close to the foot of a sandhill, our guide, secured to my belt by a rope round his ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

Words linked to "Kali" : shrub, bush, Hindu deity