vinegarn.
/ˈvɪnᵻɡə/, U.S. /ˈvɪnəɡər/ 1. † b. elliptical. The accidental conversion of wine into vinegar. Obsolete. rare.
a. A liquid (consisting of acetic acid in a dilute form) produced by the acetous fermentation of wine and some other alcoholic liquors or special compounds and employed either pure or with various admixtures in the preparation of food (or as a relish to this) and in the arts, etc.The chief sources of vinegar are indicated by the names wine-, malt-, sugar-, and wood-vinegar. radical vinegar n. at radical adj. and n. Compounds 2, thieves' vinegar n. at thief n. Compounds 2b.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar
eisellc1160
vinegarc1315
acetum1526
acetous acid1786
acetic acid1788
α.
β. c1408 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 52 In vinager et cepis emptis.1409 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 53 In 1 quart de vineger empt.c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxviii. 105 Vyneger was gode,..wyn is gode,..and muste shalle be gode.a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 6 Goode wyne schalle turne to venegur be dene.c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxijv/1 (heading) To make veneger shortli if [ye] haue nede.1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 22 Olyues..dothe corroborate the stomake..being eaten with vyneger.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 148 Hard Cheese wrapped in cloutes wet in Uineger..returne to a softnesse.1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 133 Vineger to coole the Ordinance.1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. C1 The King calles for Viniger to his Sallet, because his sweete meate should haue sower sauce.1612 J. Webster White Divel iv. iii. 105 Best wine Dying makes strongest vinneger.1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 17 Vineger I vtterly mislike.1647 A. Cowley Passions in Mistress iii Since Love by mixing Poyson there, Has made it worse than Vinegere.1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ix. lxxii. 142 No Fire, Worm, Vinaiger, or Venome is So corsive as her fretfull Bitterness.1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 189 Spirit of Vinager being try'd after the same manner, exhibited a moderate number of bubbles.γ. 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie M One cast his paile of water at his head, another his oile, another his vinegar.1652 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) I. 133 In buying and selling a can of vinegar.1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 157 Of which we have an instance in the making of Vinegar.1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 138 As Heav'ns blest Beam turns Vinegar more sow'r.1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 93 If it be drenched nine times in vinegar, it makes a fine eye-salve.1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 111 They ought..to sprinkle the room where the patient lies with vinegar, or other strong acids.1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 386 Vinegar appears to have little or no effect upon iron, unless assisted by the air.1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1033 The weaker the wine or the beer.., the more readily it is converted into vinegar.1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 241/1 All sources of alcohol may be regarded as possible materials for making vinegar.δ. c1400 in A. Zettersten Virtue Herbs in Loscombe MS (1967) 87 Seeþ þe rote [of rosemary] in vynacre of wyne.1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 88 Vinacre,..j hoggshed.c1500 W. Kennedy Passion of Christ 963 Intill wynakar þai soupit it full sone.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 41 Thay suld..giff to hime vinakir and gal to drink.1583 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 8 A querte of vinycare, iiijd.1583–4 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 16 For foure quartes of veniker, xvjd.1586 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 26 A gallon of vyneker, xvjd.1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 44 The water of the wisemen, the Philosophers vinacre, the minerall water.1691 in Hawick Archæol. Soc. Trans. (1905) 13/2 I[tem] for osters and winiker, brandi and spis, [£]0. 6. 0.figurative.a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 59 To stoop this Vinacre to the very Lees; some will say [etc.].c1315 Shoreham i. 829 Al so longe hyt hys blod, Ase lest þe forme of wyne, Nauȝt of fynegre kende [= kind] chald.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 70 Venim.., or vinegre, I trouwe, Walleþ in my wombe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16762 + 13 Vinegre & gall þe jews blend And to his mouth put þore.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 40 Þe Iuyse of celidone y-medled wiþ vinegre and warmed at þe fire.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 37 Flessh, benes, salt and vynaygre.
a1500 ( Bale's Chron. in R. Flenley Six Town Chron. (1911) 118 Powles steple was sodenly on fire..but it was holpen and quenched wt venegre.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Aiijv/1 To make winnegre shortly if nede be.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vynygre, and honye sodden together, oxymeli.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 2 Let the same..put a litle vinegre thereto.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 257 Clodius..to know what tast pearles had, mortified them in vinegre, and drunke them up.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > fermentation > accidental forming of vinegar
vinegar1584
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xiv. 249 A charme against vineager. That wine wax not eager, write on the vessell, [etc.].
c. With a and plural. A particular kind, or special preparation, of vinegar.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar > a kind of
vinegar1839
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 13 The fallacy of trusting to the hydrometer for determining the strength of vinegars.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 18 Vinegars are those preparations in which vinegar, or dilute acetic acid, is used as the menstruum.
2. In allusive use:
a. With reference to the painful or harsh effect of vinegar on a wound, or on the teeth (after Proverbs x. 26).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pain of wound or blow
rankling?a1425
vinegar1548
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark ii. f. 20 He that put in the vinegre of sorowe, dyd also giue him the oyle of good hope.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. B3v It is vineger to his teeth, and maketh him very sawcie with his g. of Cant.
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) iii. 13 To qualify with oyle The soule-afflicting vin'gre of his toyle.
1656 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1704) III. xv. 490 Our desire is..not to pour Vineger but Oyl into the wounds.
b. With reference to Hannibal's use of vinegar in making his way over the Alps, according to Livy xxi. 37 (cf. Juvenal x. 153).Cf. the quotation for vinegar-railing n. at Compounds 2.
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1636 F. Quarles Elegie in Wks. (1881) III. 11/1 We cut our way Through these our Alpine griefes, and sadly rise With the sharp vinegre of suffused eyes.
1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 108 The Alps of your difficulties subside before you, and without vinegar.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 64 [Johnson:] Davies said of a well known dramatick authour, that ‘he..made his way as Hannibal did, by vinegar; having begun by attacking people’.
3. † b. In the phrase to wish one at vinegar. Obsolete. rare.
a. figurative. Speech, temper, etc., of a sour or acid character. (Cf. Compounds 1b.)
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [noun]
gallc1175
sourness1482
fellc1494
acerbitya1538
tartness1548
acrimony1597
verjuice1598
vinegara1616
acidness1660
asperity1664
thorniness1674
acidity1687
acerbitude1727
acridity1753
vitriol1769
souredness1858
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 142 Heere's the Challenge, reade it: I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. Prol. A little Vineger against the Pope.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlii. 428 Mrs. Pipchin..freshened the domestics with several little sprinklings of wordy vinegar.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets iv. 101 The temper of his proposed son-in-law was a mixture of gall, wormwood, vinegar, verjuice, vitriol and nitric acid.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > bear malice [verb (intransitive)]
spitc1386
malign?a1439
to bear malice1530
spitec1560
malice1587
to wish one at vinegar1774
bitch1915
1774 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 73 He will soon do something, and play some prank, which I dare say his uncle will wish him at vinegar for.
4. slang. (See quots.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [noun] > official
vinegar1699
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape
rifteOE
mantleeOE
whittlec900
hackleeOE
bratc950
reafOE
capec1275
copec1275
cloakc1300
toge?a1400
caster1567
togeman1567
vinegar1699
overcloak1831
pharos1871
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Vinegar, a Cloak.
1725 New Canting Dict. Vinegar,..the Fellow that makes a Ring, and keeps Order among Wrestlers, Cudgel-Players, &c.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Vinegar, a name given to the person, who with a whip in his hand, and a hat held before his eyes, keeps the ring clear at boxing matches and cudgel playings.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
(a) Attributive.
vinegar-bottle n. also figurative
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > bottle(s) for oil, vinegar, or sauce > for vinegar
vinegar-bottle1459
vinegar-glass1611
acetabulum1622
vinegar-pot1669
vinegar-cruet1713
1459 Paston Lett. I. 490 Item, j. venegre botell.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. It will bee some of their destinies to carrie the vineger bottle ere they die.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 1 What Ingenioso, carrying a Vinegar bottle about thee, like a great schole-boy giuing the world a bloudy nose?
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Vinagrera, a Vinegar-bottle, or Cruit.
vinegar-cask n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for wine > specific for increasing acidity
vinegar-cask1837
1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 850 In some country districts, the people keep..a vinegar cask, into which they pour such wine as they wish to acetify.
vinegar-cruet n. also figurative
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > bottle(s) for oil, vinegar, or sauce > for vinegar
vinegar-bottle1459
vinegar-glass1611
acetabulum1622
vinegar-pot1669
vinegar-cruet1713
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [noun] > sour-tempered person
sourock1723
sourling1784
lemon1863
vinegar-cruet1873
sour-ball1900
sourpuss1937
1713 London Gaz. No. 5086/3 A Sett of Casters with Vinegar Crewets.
1745 J. Parsons in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 187 A little Piece of Camphire, exactly shaped like a common Vinegar-Crewet, having a round Bottom, and a long taper Neck.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 92 Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 113 A morose, narrow-minded, hide-bound set of vinegar-cruets.
vinegar-dreg n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 158 Vinegre dregs are knowne to be verie good for to heale burnes.
vinegar-glass n.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > bottle(s) for oil, vinegar, or sauce > for vinegar
vinegar-bottle1459
vinegar-glass1611
acetabulum1622
vinegar-pot1669
vinegar-cruet1713
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vinaigrier,..a Vineger glasse, violl, or bottle.
vinegar-manufactory n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1278 Vinegar manufactory, by malt.
1842 Penny Mag. 29 Oct. 425/1 The vinegar-manufactories are but few in number.
vinegar-pot n.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > bottle(s) for oil, vinegar, or sauce > for vinegar
vinegar-bottle1459
vinegar-glass1611
acetabulum1622
vinegar-pot1669
vinegar-cruet1713
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 448 A vinegar pot, oil pot, and sugar box.
vinegar-poultice n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress
plasterOE
clydec1325
emplastera1382
entretea1400
pottagea1400
poulticea1400
faldellac1400
treatc1400
Gratia Dei?a1425
magdaleon?a1425
strictorya1425
grace of Godc1450
emplastrum?1541
malagma?1541
sparadrap1543
spasmadrap?a1547
plasture?1550
mustard plaster1562
cataplasm1563
oint-plaster1578
quilt1583
compress1599
compression1599
diachylum-plaster1599
pulment1599
pulvinar1599
frontlet1600
sinapism1601
epithemation1615
diapalma1646
opodeldoc1646
attraction1656
treacle plaster1659
melilot emplaster1676
stay1676
oxycroceum1696
melilot plaster1712
adhesive1753
bag1753
mustard poultice1765
soap plaster1789
water dressing1830
poor man's plaster1833
compressor1851
spongiopiline1851
vinegar-poultice1854
water-strapping1854
pitch-plaster1858
jacket poultice1862
mustard leaf1869
mustard paper1874
piline1874
plaster-mull1890
mustard cloth1897
plaster-muslin1899
antiphlogistin1901
1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Cataplasma Aceti,..the vinegar poultice; made of vinegar and bread crumb, or the like.
vinegar-powder n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > powders
powder merchantc1387
vinegar-powder1753
amchur1838
the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar > types of
alegara1425
red vinegarc1475
beeregara1500
white wine vinegar1527
red wine vinegar1596
wine-vinegara1617
beer-vinegara1668
vinegar beer1677
vinegar-powder1753
chilli-vinegar1818
rice vinegar1821
wood-vinegar1837
sugar-vinegar1839
mint vinegar1845
tarragon vinegar1845
cider vinegar1851
Orleansa1857
wood-acid1858
four thieves' vinegar1868
balsamic vinegar1982
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A sort of Vinegar-powder, or Vinegar in a dry form.
vinegar-vessel n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rape The Rape is..put into a Place to sour itself, before it is cast into the Vinegar Vessel.
vinegar-work n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 3 When new vessels are mounted in a vinegar work, they must be one third filled with the best vinegar that can be procured.
vinegar-yeast n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 2 Several azotized substances serve as re-agents towards the acetous fermentation,—such as vinegar ready-made, vinegar-yeast, or lees.
(b) Obj. genitive.
vinegar-drawer n.
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1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 98 He is a Vinegar-drawer.
vinegar-man n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > manufacture of other foodstuffs > [noun] > vinegar manufacture > vinegar-maker
vinegar-maker1611
vinegar-man1611
vinegarist1676
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vinaigrier, a Vineger-man, or Vineger-maker.
vinegar-maker n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > manufacture of other foodstuffs > [noun] > vinegar manufacture > vinegar-maker
vinegar-maker1611
vinegar-man1611
vinegarist1676
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vinaigrier, a Vineger-man, or Vineger-maker.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3283/3 All Malsters.., Brewers,..Victuallers, and Vinegar-makers.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6134/4 John Gregory,..Distiller and Vinegar-maker.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 905 This axiom cannot be too strongly inculcated into the minds of vinegar-makers.
vinegar-making n.
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1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. 60 In the ordinary process of vinegar-making from sugar and water.
(c)
vinegar-flavoured adj.
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1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiii. 191 A vinegar-flavoured vintage of Parnassus.
vinegar-tart adj.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective]
bitter?c1225
sour?c1225
envenomedc1375
envenomousa1420
crabbed1565
gallish1595
verjuice1598
vinegar-tart1599
soury1647
acrid1681
acrious1682
sourish1688
embittered1694
subacid1760
verjuiced1836
acidulent1837
vinaigrous1837
vinegar1847
vinegary1847
soured1848
acerbic1853
acidulous1865
acerbate1869
acerbitous1870
snake-headed1920
sour-pussed1952
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 75 Let none of these scumme of the subvrbs, be too vineger tarte with mee.
1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Satyres iv. 57 A viniger tart looke or clowdy brow.
b. Attributive, in the sense ‘extremely sour in temper or disposition’; also in combinations, as vinegar-faced, vinegar-hearted adjs.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective]
bitter?c1225
sour?c1225
envenomedc1375
envenomousa1420
crabbed1565
gallish1595
verjuice1598
vinegar-tart1599
soury1647
acrid1681
acrious1682
sourish1688
embittered1694
subacid1760
verjuiced1836
acidulent1837
vinaigrous1837
vinegar1847
vinegary1847
soured1848
acerbic1853
acidulous1865
acerbate1869
acerbitous1870
snake-headed1920
sour-pussed1952
1597 Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 165 Such barmy heads wil alwaies be working, when as sad vineger wittes sit souring at the bottome of a barrell.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 54 Other of such vinigar aspect, That theyle not shew theyr teeth in way of smile. View more context for this quotation
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 28 The Commons nothing mortified with these tart and vinacre expressions [of the king], kept close to their proper stations.
1662 Rump Songs (1874) I. 161 From a vinegar Priest on a Crab-tree stock,..Libera nos.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. iii. 11 More grum, vinegar-fac'd,..than any kind whatsoever in the whole Island.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xxix. 322 The habitual vinegar expression of his long triangular visage.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 145 A peevish and vinegar-hearted step-mother.
1847 T. De Quincey Orthogr. Mutineers in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 161/1 He was too vinegar a fellow for them; nothing hearty or genial about him.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ii. 16 Vinegar-faced Joseph projected his head from a round window of the barn.
1850 J. W. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) II. 13 You may fancy the vinegar looks of the Lady of the House and the visitors whom I had kept from their dinner one mortal hour.
C2. Special combinations.† vinegar beer n. Obsolete ? beer employed for conversion into vinegar.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar > types of
alegara1425
red vinegarc1475
beeregara1500
white wine vinegar1527
red wine vinegar1596
wine-vinegara1617
beer-vinegara1668
vinegar beer1677
vinegar-powder1753
chilli-vinegar1818
rice vinegar1821
wood-vinegar1837
sugar-vinegar1839
mint vinegar1845
tarragon vinegar1845
cider vinegar1851
Orleansa1857
wood-acid1858
four thieves' vinegar1868
balsamic vinegar1982
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer
spruce beerc1500
March beer1535
Lubecks beer1608
zythum1608
household beer1616
bottle1622
mumc1623
old beer1626
six1631
four1633
maize beer1663
mum beer1667
vinegar beer1677
wrest-beer1689
nog1693
October1705
October beer1707
ship-beer1707
butt beer1730
starting beer1735
butt1743
peterman1767
seamen's beer1795
chang1800
treacle beer1806
stock beer1826
Iceland beer1828
East India pale ale1835
India pale ale1837
faro1847
she-oak1848
Bass1849
bitter beer1850
bock1856
treble X1856
Burton1861
nettle beer1864
honey beer1867
pivo1873
Lambic1889
steam beer1898
barley-beer1901
gueuze1926
Kriek1936
best1938
rough1946
keg1949
IPA1953
busaa1967
mbege1972
microbrew1985
microbeer1986
yeast-beer-
1677 Act 29 Chas. II c. 2 For every Barrell of Beere commonly called Vineger beere brewed or made to be sold, Six pence.
vinegar Bible n. (see quots.).
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > edition > [noun] > other
interlineary1659
vinegar Bible1834
the open Bible1837
Treacle Bible1899
NEB1961
1834 Lowndes Bibliogr. Man. I. 180 A most magnificent edition, called ‘The Vinegar Bible’, from an error in the running title at St. Luke, chap. xxii, where it is read ‘the parable of the vinegar’, instead of ‘the parable of the vineyard’.
1868 W. D. Macray Annals Bodl. Lib. 147 Baskett, the printer, presented to the Library a magnificent copy on vellum of the ‘Vinegar’ Bible, printed by him in 1717.
vinegar-cherry n. a species of wild cherry.
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1895 Outing 26 394/1 Branches of reddening vinegar cherries.
vinegar-eel n. a minute nematoid worm ( Anguillula aceti) breeding in vinegar.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula
eel1746
paste eel1750
vinegar-eel1836
vinegar worm1896
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 113/2 The Anguillula aceti, or common Vinegar-eel.
vinegar-field n. = vinegar-yard n.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for vinegar
vinegar-yard1703
vinegar-field1842
1842 Penny Mag. 29 Oct. 426/2 Behind the store-house..is the vinegar-field, a remarkable feature in most vinegar-works.
vinegar-fly n. a fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster; cf. drosophila n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Drosophilidae > drosophila melanogaster (vinegar-fly)
vinegar-fly1902
1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 185 They are also called ‘vinegar flies’, from the fact that their..larvae are frequently found in canned fruits and pickles which have been imperfectly sealed.
1937 Discovery Sept. 282/2 There is a type of cockroach found in vinegar breweries, at least two kinds of vinegar fly, and..the vinegar eel.
1979 P. L. G. Bateman Household Pests ii. 19 The tiny red-eyed fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, is one of several species associated with fermenting liquids or rotting fruit. They are also known as wine flies, yeast flies or vinegar flies.
vinegar mother n. = vinegar-plant n. (b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew
fenOE
mildew1340
moulda1400
moul1440
vinny1538
hoar1548
mouldingc1610
vinegar-plant1797
moulder1817
mucor1818
vinegar mother1839
leaf rust1859
wood-mould1869
Isaria1874
grease mould1882
brown mould1883
pourriture noble1911
fumagine1913
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 2 The Germans call it the vinegar mother, as it serves to excite acetification in fresh liquors.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 1 In the vinegar of wine..there appears a peculiar mould-plant, belonging to the genus Mycoderma Pers.; which is usually called vinegar mother.
vinegar-plant n. (a) the Virginian sumac, Rhus typhina; (b) a mould which grows on the surface of liquids undergoing acetous fermentation.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew
fenOE
mildew1340
moulda1400
moul1440
vinny1538
hoar1548
mouldingc1610
vinegar-plant1797
moulder1817
mucor1818
vinegar mother1839
leaf rust1859
wood-mould1869
Isaria1874
grease mould1882
brown mould1883
pourriture noble1911
fumagine1913
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 228/1 The..Virginian sumach, or vinegar plant, grows naturally in almost every part of North America.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §637 Flocculent or gelatinous masses, constituting the curious object called the Vinegar-plant.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1217/1 The exact mode in which the Vinegar-plant operates on the solution is not known.
vinegar-railing n. figurative bitter abuse.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > abusive language
teleeOE
conteckc1380
contumelyc1386
flitec1400
abuse1559
doggery?1577
vinegar-railing1609
Billingsgate1676
slangwhang1834
tongue-plague1853
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B1v Though with Hanniball you bring whole hogs-heads of vinegar railings, it is impossible for you to quench or come ouer my Alpine-resolution.
vinegar stick n. a sword or walking-stick with a vinaigrette (sense 3) fitted into the handle (now Historical); also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > sword-stick, etc.
Jacob's staff1596
tuck-cane1700
tuck-stick1765
sword-cane1837
tickler1844
sword-stick1858
vinegar stick1935
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 129/2 Vinegar stick, a stilletto; a long bladed knife; a sword.
1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Nov. 21/1 The forerunner of the vinaigrette was the vinegar stick, a walking stick with a hollow head for a vinegar~soaked sponge.
1979 ‘J. Gash’ Grail Tree vi. 60 You get them in all shapes, even as ‘vinegar sticks’, where the container is cleverly made into the handle of a sword or walking-stick.
vinegar-tree n. = vinegar-plant n. (a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1350/2 Vinegar-tree, Rhus typhina.
vinegar worm n. = vinegar-eel n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula
eel1746
paste eel1750
vinegar-eel1836
vinegar worm1896
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 163 Anguillula aceti, the Vinegar worm, lives in sour paste and in vinegar.
vinegar-yard n. a yard or open space in which vinegar-casks are arranged.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for vinegar
vinegar-yard1703
vinegar-field1842
1703 London Gaz. No. 3893/4 A Distilling-house, Brew-house, and Vinegar-yard.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Vinegar-yard, a place where vinegar is exposed to season.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
vinegarv.
/ˈvɪnᵻɡə/, U.S. /ˈvɪnəɡər/ transitive. To treat with vinegar in some way; to add or apply vinegar to; to restore by means of vinegar. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > flavour with vinegar
vinegar1612
acidulate1684
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. v. sig. H2 Then, to her Cuz, Hoping, that he hath vinegard his senses, As he was bid, the Faery Queene dispenses, By me, this Robe. View more context for this quotation
1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools v. 56 Ev'n forgive her all... No, faith! I must crab her, she must be Vinegar'd!
1804 W. Irving Let. 20 Dec. (1978) I. 122 Where I should be detained, Quarantined, smoaked & vinegard.
1831 J. Bentham Memorandum-bk. in Wks. (1843) XI. 73 You do as you do by a cucumber, when you cut it into slips to be eaten, when it has been peppered, salted, and vinegared.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 97 The landlady..proceeded to vinegar the forehead, beat the hands, titillate the nose, and unlace the stays of the spinster aunt.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/1 Aurora rose and thrust a smelling-bottle under his nose, tapped his hands, vinegared him.
Derivatives
ˈvinegaring n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > application of vinegar
vinegaring1841
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xix. 40 After..much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth.
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