Niter vs. Nitter: What's the Difference?

Niter and Nitter Definitions

See potassium nitrate.

(zoology) A louse that deposits nits on horses.

(obsolete) Native sodium carbonate; natron.

The horse louse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder.

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

Native sodium carbonate; natron.

For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.

(KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive