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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

saccharon

sugar +

lac

lactis

, milk.]

(Chem.)

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic.

[Obs.]

Adj.

[L. saccharum, sugar, and lac, milk.]

A term in the new chimistry, denoting an acid obtained from the sugar of milk; now called mucic acid.