Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance used as a mild caustic in eating down or removing warts, exuberant granulations, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

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  • noun medicine A mild caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek down + to take.

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