It is less acrid than the black, and is much prized among the Chinese.

Its general qualities are the same as those of the nutmeg, producing an agreeable aromatic odour, with a hot and acrid taste.

The best is firm and hard, and has a strong aromatic odour, with a hot and acrid taste.

The next purpose to be answered is the defence of the lining membrane of the intestines from their acrid contents, which will be best effected by drinking copiously of linseed tea, or of a drink made by pouring boiling water on quince-seeds, which are of a very mucilaginous nature; or, what is still better, full draughts of whey.

There is at first a burning, acrid taste in, and a sensation of tightness round, the throat, like that of strangling; the skin touched is destroyed; retching mostly followed by actual vomiting, then sets in; the vomited matters often containing blood of a dark brown colour, with little shreds of flesh here and there, and always changing vegetable blue colours green.

" At breakfast, though the acrid smoke was an enveloping reminder, he made the only reference to their situation.

The hurried, silver ring of the hilts dismayed him, the dust from the garden path choked him like an acrid smoke.

It was aware only that Miss Caroline treated Clem with a despotic severity, issuing commands to him as from a throne of power and in tones of acrid authority that were the envy of all housekeepers among us who kept "hired girls.

For the floor is covered with a layer of wood ashes that is usually deadly to bugs and fleas and ticks and other crawling beasts; and the atmosphere is so full of wood smoke that the most enterprising mosquito or tsetse-fly would flee, as we do, choking from the acrid smoke.

A bolt of lightning slivered the rock above the wolf; there was an acrid odor of burning hair.

An acrid odor of burning flesh filled the room.

Again the pungent acrid odor rose to the nostrils.

"Come, come, Tuppy, don't let us let this little chat become acrid.

Is 'acrid' the word I want?" "I couldn't say," he replied, beginning to sidle round the bench.

What d'you know?" The Swede's smile did not alter in the slightest, but his voice became blunter, more acrid.

Adj. pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned &c v.; hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating^, escharotic^, meracious^; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough &c (sour) 397; unsavory &c 395.

Adj. bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic.

Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet^; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough. offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening &c v.; nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant &c 830.

[acrid substances] tear gas; smoke, acrid fumes.

[acrid substances] tear gas; smoke, acrid fumes.

Adj. acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh; bitter &c 392.2. (5) Sound (i) SOUND IN GENERAL 402.

For that, in its noisier and more acrid forms you must go back to the men who are not fighting, to the overdriven and underexercised journalists, sizzling and thundering in their swivel-chairs.

More formidable, as illustrating the venom which the author's whole nature had secreted against a perfectly recognisable type of modern woman, is the acrid description of Ada, Beatrice, and Fanny French.

I tasted several from different trees, until I found one with sweet, somewhat acrid taste.

The rolling is attended with some pain, as an acrid juice exudes from the leaves, which acts upon the hands; and the whole operation of tea-curing and packing is somewhat unpleasant, from the fine dust arising, and entering the nose and mouth,to prevent which, the workmen often cover the lower part of the face with a cloth.