Vocabulary Word
Word: rancid
Definition: having the odor of stale or decomposing fat; rank
Definition: having the odor of stale or decomposing fat; rank
Sentences Containing 'rancid'
As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerated among us within these hundred years past; how the pox, under all its consequences and denominations had altered every lineament of an English countenance; shortened the size of bodies, unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh loose and rancid.
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