a. Chem. [f. BORAX + -IC.] Of the nature of, pertaining to, or derived from borax. Boracic acid is now in systematic nomenclature Boric acid.
1801. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 58. A white glittering salt … resembling the concrete boracic acid.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 152. Boracic or Boric Acid.
1880. Mac Cormac, Antisept. Surg., 149. Boracic lint, or some similar application.
