ACRID
\ˈakɹɪd], \ˈakɹɪd], \ˈa_k_ɹ_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of ACRID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
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Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.
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Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.
By Oddity Software
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Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
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Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.
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Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.
By Noah Webster.
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Sharp or bitter to the taste, as vinegar; pungent; irritating; stinging.
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An acrid or irritant poison.
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Acridly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An epithet for substances which occasion a disagreeable sense of irritation or of constriction at the top of the throat. Acrid heat, (F.) Chaleur acre, is one that causes a hot tingling sensation at the extremities of the fingers.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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