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Definition of Acidy
1. sour [adj] - See also: sour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acidy
Literary usage of Acidy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Starch, Glucose, Starch-sugar by Julius Frankel, Ladislaus von Wágner (1881)
"Of this powder a handful is thrown at a time into the hot, acidy liquid, ...
The diminution of the acidy reaction during the adding of the carbonate of lime ..."
2. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"In blending coffees, consideration is given first to the shades of flavor in the
cup and next to price. The blender describes flavors as. acidy, bitter, ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1906)
"From June 15th to 30th, 45 per cent, of the defective cheese that I examined
were "acidy," and 20 per cent, were third grade. The maximum temperature at ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"She has grown into a faded, acidy spinster with protective impulses for her niece,
EMILY, on whom she spends aU her suppressed maternal feelings. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1782)
"From the Author's experiments and calculations, Fixed air, or the Mephitic acidy
as it has been called, appears, ..."
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