Word Meanings - CAUSTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

• Searing
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• ACTIONARYACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]
• Burnet
  A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
• Chemically
  According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
• Corrosive
  Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
• Searce
  A fine sieve.
• SEARSERE
  [OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Mil
• Burnettized
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• Destroyed
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• Searcer
  One who sifts or bolts.
• SEARAT
  The chimæra.
• Action
  A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action o
• Burnettizing
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• Destroying
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• Searched
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• SEAREED
  The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.
• Actionable
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• Burnettize
  To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• Destroy
  To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
• Searching
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