What does the word rancid mean?

Usage examples for rancid

  1. We've peaches a great many commodities in with the yellows, and weeviled such a condition that they are wheat, and rancid butter, and not exportable. – The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
  2. The rancid smell of bedding struck his sensitive nostrils from within. – In Happy Valley by John Fox
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