Ăç'id1, a.
(ăs'id), a. [Lat. acidus, from acere, to be sour, Fr. acide.] Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar; as, acid fruits or liquors.
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Acid
Ăç'id2, n.
n. 1. A sour substance.
Sense 2. (Chem.) (a.) An electro-negative substance having the properties of combining with alkalies and alkaline oxyds, of reddening most blue vegetable colors, and usually with a strong, sharp taste. (b.) That substance which in the decomposition of a given compound is relatively electro-negative, is borne to the positive pole, and in its compounds exchanges hydrogen for a metal. “An hydrogenized body which can readily exchange its hydrogen for a metal.” Adling.