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Webster 1913 Edition

Caustic

Cau′stic

,
Noun.
[L.
causticum
(sc.
medicamentum
). See
Caustic
,
Adj.
]
1.
Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
2.
(Optics)
A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Webster 1828 Edition

Caustic

CAUSTIC

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