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Acridity

noun

Having an acrid smell.

Extreme bitterness. Synonym: acridness.

The quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone. Synonym: acridness.

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... for twenty-four hours, and be then drawn off by a cock placed in the cask, ten or twelve inches from the bottom, when the soda is to be put to it, being careful not to exceed the above proportion, as, from its acridity, it would otherwise be liable to destroy the foliage. Two or three times watering with this liquor, by means of a garden engine, will destroy and remove the vermin. The application of clay-paint, too, has been found of great ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

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Words linked to "Acridity" : disagreeableness, olfactory perception, odor, odour, smell, bitter, acridness, acrid, olfactory sensation, bitterness