Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating; corroding; corrosive.
  • noun In medicine, a drug which stimulates the appetite or causes hunger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Causing hunger; eating; corroding.
  • noun (Med.), obsolete A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

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