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 reducewarts and otherexcrescences .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek down + to take.
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