Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the original Freuch use of this word it applies to the seaweed itself before burning, but it is now commonly applied to the ash which results from the burning, utilized for the extraction from it of iodine and salts of potassium, as formerly of sodium carbonate. Also
vareck . - noun An impure sodium carbonate made in Brittany: it corresponds to the English kelp. Brande and Cox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
calcined ashes of any coarseseaweed used for themanufacture ofsoda andiodine . - noun The seaweed itself;
fucus ;wrack .
Etymologies
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French varech; of Teutonic origin. See wrack and compare vraic.
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