Caustic

kaws'tik, -tical, a. Destructive to the ture of anything; burning; corrosive: severe; satirical; sharp. — Caus'tic, n. Any substance, which, applied to animal substances, burns, or destroys texture. {Opt.) A caustic curve, — a curve to which the rays of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents. — Caus'tically, adv. — Causticity, -tis'i-tl, re. Quality or property of, etc.; corrosivene ; severity of language; sarcasm. — Cau'ter, re. A hot, searing iron. — Cau'teriza'tion, n. {Surg.) Act of burning a morbid part by application of — Cau'terize, -Iz, v. t. [-terized (-Tzd), -izing.] burn or sear with fire or hot iron. — Cau'tery, -ter-Y, re. A burning, as of morbid flesh, bjr a hot iron, by caustic medicines.