Meanings of natron in English

Found quantities of natron on the marshy ground bordering the river.

Camels and men drank it greedily, though it was tainted by the all-pervading natron.

This fellow has been pickled in natron, and looked after in the most approved style.

The natron is also a source of profitable exportation.

Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink.

Here, there is no natron, nor bands, nor spices.

The natron or soda, which is procured in the neighbourhood, is found alone in the ground.

For weeks it was soaked in a solution of natron and then it was filled with pitch.

We also have control of the mines, the quarries, the saltworks, and the natron pits, I assured him.

Soap, natron the ancient substitute for.

Forty for the natron-drying, and then there is the wrapping, and -butnow we have a quicker service.

In Mexico there are several natron lakes.]

I think for raw skin like that, a compound of roasted natron, vinegar, honey, and bile...

Much of this is converted into natron by the organic matter in the soil, and forms a white crust on the earth.

Evidently it had not passed the allotted seventy days in natron, and therefore the expression and likeness were better preserved than is usual.

The natron was used as before; and after the customary days were passed, the injected fluid was withdrawn, and with it came the entrails.