acescent
/əˈsɛsnt/adjective
Tending to turn acid or sour; acidic; sour. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in James Drake (d. 1707), political and medical writer. From classical Latin acēscent-, acēscēns, present participle of acēscere to turn sour from acēre to be sour + -ēscere.
- rack hook
- rackie
- rackingly
- Rackinsack
- rack job
- rack-jobber
- rack-jobbing
- rack-lashing
- rackle
- rackle-handed
- rackle-tongued
- rack lever
- rack-master
- rack-mount
- rack-mountable
- rack-mounted
- rack mounting
- rack of bones
- rack (or wrack) one's brains (or brain)
- rack-out
- rack pillar
- rack pin
- rack pole
- rack punch
- rack rail