consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.-of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.-a salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.-a crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.-a metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.