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A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the…

In a caustic manner.

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The quality of being caustic; causticity.

Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.

Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.…

Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.

That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. "A biting affliction." "A biting jest." Shak.

reeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effe…

ich are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.