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Catacaustic :: Catacaustic (a.) Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a..

Catacaustic :: Catacaustic (n.) A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Alt. of Caustica.

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Caustical :: Caustical (a.) Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

Caustical :: Caustical (a.) Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark..

Caustically :: Caustically (adv.) In a caustic manner.

Causticily :: Causticily (n.) The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash..

Causticily :: Causticily (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark..

Causticness :: Causticness (n.) The quality of being caustic; causticity.

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

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery..

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

Encaustic :: Encaustic (a.) Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Encaustic :: Encaustic (a.) The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors..

Galvanocaustic :: Galvanocaustic (a.) Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine..

Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..

Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.].

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..