Barilla

1. n. Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
2. n. A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
3. n. The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.