Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or produced from borax. Also
boric .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric.
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- adjective inorganic chemistry Of or relating to
boron aliasborax . - adjective Cockney rhyming slang
penniless
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- adjective of or relating to or derived from or containing boron
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is a white crystalline substance found native in volcanic districts called boracic acid.
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The others such as boracic acid, borax and soda are often used for sweetening the brine and to keep it from spoiling but are not absolutely essential.
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The first thing we did was to lance the big blisters that had formed and let out the fluid they contained; afterwards we put on boracic compresses, night and morning.
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They would not doubtless have the advantages of the wicks which are impregnated with boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely consumed, but Cyrus Harding having manufactured a beautiful pair of snuffers, these candles would be greatly appreciated during the long evenings in Granite House.
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They would not doubtless have the advantages of the wicks which are impregnated with boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely consumed, but Cyrus Harding having manufactured a beautiful pair of snuffers, these candles would be greatly appreciated during the long evenings in Granite House.
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The first thing we did was to lance the big blisters that had formed and let out the fluid they contained; afterwards we put on boracic compresses, night and morning.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
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He could put up with the loss of supplies of things like iodine and calamine lotion, since there were alternatives that worked just as well, but there had been no supply of boracic acid ever since the outbreak of the war, since that particular substance had always come from the volcanic steam of Tuscany; it was the best drug he knew of for coping with infections of the bladder and foulness of the urine.
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Her mother was boracic due to her father's complete refusal to get a job so she was unable to help out any more, and Susan didn't like to keep asking Kate as it just made relations between her and her son more strained.
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She was on the ponce. pi'If it's money you're after I am boracic lint, Mother.
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The same impurities found in the stream are also found in the lake, where the water is so saturated with salt, boracic acid, etc., that one can no more sink in it than in the water of the Great Salt lake; and I found it so saturated that after swimming in it a little while the skin all over my body was gnawed and made very sore by the acids.
Gammerstang commented on the word boracic
(noun) - Don't give me the old boracic, don't tell me tall yarns.
--Paul Tempest's Lag's Lexicon: A Dictionary of the English Prison, 1950
January 14, 2018