Vinegar
['vɪnɪgə] or ['vɪnɪɡɚ]
Definition
(noun.) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative.
(noun.) dilute acetic acid.
Edited by Henry--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.
(v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
Edited by Francine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Acetic acid (dilute and impure).
Typist: Sophie
Definition
n. the form of acetic acid generally preferred for culinary purposes—made by the fermentation of vegetable substances from malt or from inferior wines: sourness of temper.—v.t. to apply vinegar to.—adj. Vin′aigrous sour like vinegar ill-tempered.—ns. Vin′egar-cru′et a glass bottle for holding vinegar; Vinegarette′ a vinaigrette; Vin′egar-plant the microscopic fungus which produces acetous fermentation—found in two forms known as mother of vinegar and flowers of vinegar.—adjs. Vin′egary Vin′egarish sour.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of drinking vinegar, denotes that you will be exasperated and worried into assenting to some engagement which will fill you with evil foreboding. To use vinegar on vegetables, foretells a deepening of already distressing affairs. To dream of vinegar at all times, denotes inharmonious and unfavorable aspects.
Editor: Lucia
Examples
- By experiment it has been found that the addition to the bleaching solution of an acid, such as vinegar or lemon juice or sulphuric acid, causes the liberation of the chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Cut the camomile in pieces and rub fine with the sal-ammoniac; add the lavender water and vinegar by placing all in a glass flask and let it digest for twelve hours and filter. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I'll let you know, if you don't bring smelling-salts, cold water, and vinegar, quick, I will. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You can tell them to sprinkle a little vinegar about the place where he sleeps and to keep it moderately cool and him moderately warm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What do you think of vinegar and brown paper? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What is it that makes a molecule of water differ from a molecule of vinegar, and each differ from all other molecules? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- My kitchen is on this floor,' he said; 'you'll find brown paper in a dresser-drawer there, and a bottle of vinegar on a shelf. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pepper, 1 quart white Vinegar, 1 Gloucester Cheese, 1 keg containing 20 lbs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Suppose you let her have your aromatic vinegar; I always forget to have mine filled. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Cider and vinegar are likewise cleared by passage through charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Physically Mr. Bulstrode did not want the vinegar, but morally the affectionate attention soothed him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the manufacture of vinegar, salicylic acid is also of great importance to prevent false or excessive fermentation, putridity, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Sit down and let me sponge it with vinegar. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why does fruit-juice produce alcohol, wine turn to vinegar, milk become sour, and butter rancid? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If some cooking soda is put into lemon juice or vinegar, or any acid, bubbles of gas immediately form and escape from the liquid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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