Muriate

n. [ See Muriatic. ] (Chem.) A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term, as also the word muriatic, was formerly applied to the chlorides before their true composition was understood, and while they were erroneously supposed to be compounds of an acid with an oxide. Muriate and muriatic are still occasionally used as commercial terms, but are obsolete in scientific language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. murinus, from mus, muris, mouse: cf. F. murin. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]