† phocicadj.
Chemistry. Obsolete. rare.
= phocenic adj.
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1866 W. Odling Lect. Animal Chem. 36 Diatomic Fatty Acid Series. C5H10O3 Phocic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1866- a close, near shave
- a cock crows loudest on his own dunghill
- a cock crows on his own dunghill
- a cock of the a different hackle
- a cock of the same hackle
- a cock on his own mixen
- a cock to aesculapius
- a cock-horse
- a cockhorse
- a coffee
- a cog in a or the machine
- a cold coal to blow at
- a cold day in hell
- a commends
- a commodity of brown paper
- a commodity of brown paper and old ginger
- a compass to
- a concrete
- a considerable many
- a contradiction in terminis
- a coon's age
- a copy of verses
- a cough
- a couple more
- a couple of words