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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sebum

tallow: cf. F.

sébacique

(Chem.)

Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also

sebic

, and

pyroleic

, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

Adj.

[supra.] In chimistry, pretaining to fat; obtained fro fat; as the sebacic acid.

sebacic ‎(not comparable)

pertaining to sebacic acid or its derivatives