Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to
reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly
to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private
morals deserves rebuke; an ...
