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English → English (gcide) Definition: Epsom salt Epsom salts \Ep"som salts`\ or Epsom salt \Ep"som salt`\ (Med.) Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia. [1913 Webster]