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Webster 1913 Edition
Vinegar
Vin′e-gar
,Noun.
1.
A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.
☞ The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of which it contains from three to five per cent. Wine vinegar contains also tartaric acid, citric acid, etc.
2.
Hence, anything sour; – used also metaphorically.
Here’s the challenge: . . . I warrant there's
vinegar
and pepper in't. Shakespeare
Aromatic vinegar
, strong acetic acid highly flavored with aromatic substances.
– Mother of vinegar
. See 4th
– Mother
. Radical vinegar
, acetic acid.
– Thieves' vinegar
. See under
– Thief
. Vinegar eel
(Zool.)
, a minute nematode worm (
– Leptodera oxophila
, or Anguillula acetiglutinis
), commonly found in great numbers in vinegar, sour paste, and other fermenting vegetable substances; – called also vinegar worm
. Vinegar lamp
(Chem.)
, a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum.
– Vinegar plant
. See 4th
– Mother
. Vinegar tree
(Bot.)
, the stag-horn sumac (
– Rhus typhina
), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar. Wood vinegar
. See under
Wood
.Vin′e-gar
,Verb.
T.
To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
[Obs.]
Hoping that he hath
As he was bid.
vinegared
his sensesAs he was bid.
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vinegar
VIN'EGAR
,Noun.
1.
Vegetable acid; an acid liquor obtained from wine, cider, beer or other liquors, by the second or acetous fermentation. Vinegar may differ indefinitely in the degree of its acidity. When highly concentrated, it is called radical vinegar.2.
Any thing really or metaphorically sour. [Not in use.]Vinegar of lead, a liquor formed by digesting ceruse or litharge with a sufficient quantity of vinegar to dissolve it.
Definition 2024
vinegar
vinegar
English
Noun
vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)
- (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.
- (countable) Any variety of vinegar.
- a range of herb-flavoured vinegars
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Translations
condiment
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countable: any variety of vinegar
See also
Verb
vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)
- (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
- Charles Dickens
- Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]
- Charles Dickens