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Biting :: Biting (a.) That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.

Causticness :: Causticness (n.) The quality of being caustic; causticity.

Catheretic :: Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

Indol :: Indol (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora..

Potash :: Potash (n.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash..

Cauterism :: Cauterism (n.) The use or application of a caustic; cautery.

Cauterize :: Cauterize (v. t.) To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

Pyrotic :: Pyrotic (n.) A caustic medicine.

Pungent :: Pungent (v. t.) Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

Catacaustic :: Catacaustic (n.) A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.

Lime :: Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc..

Encaustic :: Encaustic (a.) Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Alkali :: Alkali (n.) Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc..

Erodent :: Erodent (n.) A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

Cauterization :: Cauterization (n.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application..

Lithia :: Lithia (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium..

Causticily :: Causticily (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark..

Galvanocaustic :: Galvanocaustic (a.) Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine..

Alkali :: Alkali (n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue..

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery..

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