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

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

Diogenes :: Diogenes (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings..

Vienna Paste :: Vienna paste () A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also Vienna caustic.

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..

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

Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali..

Lye :: Lye (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc..

Escharotic :: Escharotic (a.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Escharotic :: Escharotic (n.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic..

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

Metacrolein :: Metacrolein (n.) A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.

Rhusma :: Rhusma (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Alt. of Caustica.

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

Satire :: Satire (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Caustical :: Caustical (a.) Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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

Caustically :: Caustically (adv.) In a caustic manner.

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