RANCID
\ɹˈansɪd], \ɹˈansɪd], \ɹ_ˈa_n_s_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of RANCID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
By Oddity Software
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Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Having a sharp disagreeable odor and taste, characterizing an oil or other fat which is decomposing.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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