单词 | as sour as verjuice |
释义 | > as lemmasas sour (bitter, tart, etc.) as verjuice a. The acid juice of green or unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit, expressed and formed into a liquor; formerly much used in cooking, as a condiment, or for medicinal purposes. Also in comparisons as, as sour (bitter, tart, etc.) as verjuice. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > juice of unripe fruit verjuice1302 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > general plant-derived medicines savineOE liquoricec1275 verjuice1302 sandragon1334 sugar roset1363 acaciaa1398 agnus castusa1398 sebestenc1400 socotrine aloesa1425 tapsimelc1425 valencec1425 aconitum?a1450 hypericum1471 cassia1543 guaiacum1553 guaiac1558 butcher's broom1578 solanum1578 liquorice-stick1580 symphonia1597 tabasheer1598 diascord1605 orange-bead1626 oxymel of squills1654 Japonic earth1673 terebinthina1693 terebinthinate1696 pareira brava1698 rhabarbarate1716 Japan earth1718 buglossate1725 squill1725 phytolacca1730 nettle juice1747 xanthoxyloïn1767 mustard whey1769 Jesuits' drops1783 digitalis1785 arnica1788 mel-rose1790 gallic acid1791 valerian1794 sacred elixir1797 drosera1801 Spanish juice1803 mudar1819 sabadilla1821 parillin1825 mudarin1829 salicin1830 sang1843 peppermint camphor1854 pareira1855 savanilla1856 euonymin1862 menthol1862 phytolaccin1864 alstonia1868 agoniadin1870 guimauve1870 gelsemium1875 iridin1879 hazeline1880 tub-camphor1880 echinacea1887 jacaranda1887 hamamelin1890 quillain1890 vieirin1893 thiolin1894 mentha camphor1902 hamamelis1910 phytohaemagglutinin1949 adaptogen1966 α. figurative.c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2526 They must have veriuice that will squeese such crabbes.1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss v. iii 'S foot this Fat Bishop hath..so squelch'd and squeez'd me, I've no verjuice left in me.1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 269 Take heed of matching with one of the daughters of Heth; he that graffs into a crab-stock, is like never to want verjuice.β. 1349–50 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 551 In 16 lag. de vergeous.1392 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 155 Et pro viij galonibus vergws.a1400 Leg. Holy Rood viii. 175 Ȝit Moyses in Rule haþ rad, We schulde ete vr lomb in sour vergeous.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxlvii. 134 I serue of vinegre and of vergeous, and of greynes þat ben soure.c1440 Douce MS. 55 f. 7 Then take..a quantite of vertious & saffron & salte & cast ther to.1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A barell with wergoys, and a botel for wynne.1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.ii It ought for to be eten with grene garlyke or with sorell or tender vynes or vergyus in somer season.1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 65 b Boile it in iii glasses full of good vergeous or whyte wyne.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 57 Some adde therevnto Vergius, or the iuyce of soure Grapes, to make the taste more tarte.γ. 1412–3 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 75 De vuis..pro vergis inde fact'.c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 662/13 Hoc ius uiride, warius [printed warins].1527 Luton Trin. Guild (1906) 186 Payd..for j galone of wargis.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiiiiv Somtyme parde I must vse largesse ye mary somtyme in a messe of vergesse.1557 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 64 ij barrells to keepe varges in.1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 22v Be sure of vergis..so good for the kitchen.1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lxxi. 148 You shall then onely giue it a pint of strong verdges to drinke.1630 J. Taylor Praise, Antiqvitie, & Commoditie of Beggerie in Wks. i. 97/2 And for a Sauce he seldom is at Charges, For euery Crabtree, doth affoord him Vergis.1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 102 Make a posset of Varges or Vinigar and Milke, bath the joynt very hot therewith.1837 T. Hood Ode to Dr. Hahnemann 38 A drop of ‘varges’.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 375 As sour as vargis.1904 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 103 Cyder is made from the rotting Crabs; also a kind of vinegar called verjuice or vargis.1302–3 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 18 Pro j barillo ad verious. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 619 Viridis succus, veriuys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 508/2 Veriowce, sawce, agresta. 1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. 33 Make him drynke of verious and watir. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 115 A calf-lyuer skorde With the veryose: Good sawse, This is a restorité To make a good appeté. 1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 187 A brake to make verioyce with. ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe ii. f. viv The iuce of purcelane, of plantayne, and vergiouce of grapes or crabbes. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 71 Crabs after the veriuice is expressed from them. a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iii. iii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 162 Having a crabbed face of her own, she'll eat the less Verjuyce with her Mutton. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra vi. 13 II. 22 Their obedience was wrung out of them, as verjuice is out of a crab. 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory x. 232 Beat Pumice Stones to an impalpable Powder, and mix it up with Verjuice. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 124 The good Effects of Vinegar, Verjuice, Spirits of Wine, in Sprains. 1853 J. F. Royle Man. Materia Med. (ed. 2) 358 When unripe the fruit is remarkable for the harsh acidity of its juice, which is then called verjuice. 1881 Harper's Mag. July 266 To distort the face as if one were quaffing verjuice. < as lemmas |
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