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A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.

To wound or hurt deeply the snsibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick. The man was cut to the heart. Addison.

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

That can be lacerated or torn.

Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. Harvey.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

ind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.