vinegar

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  vinegar
• WordNet 3.6
  • n vinegar sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative
  • n vinegar dilute acetic acid
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A vinegar eel

• Interesting fact: Pearls melt in vinegar
• • Vinegar 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.
  • Vinegar Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically. "Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't."
  • v. t Vinegar To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp. "Hoping that he hath vinegared his senses
    As he was bid."
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• Interesting fact: By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors
• • n vinegar Dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by the acetous fermentation. In wine-countries it is obtained from the acetous fermentation of inferior wines, but elsewhere it is procured from an infusion of malt which has previously undergone the vinous fermentation, or from apple cider. Common and distilled vinegars are used in pharmacy for preparing many remedies, and externally in medicine, in the form of lotions. The use of vinegar as a condiment is universal. It is likewise the antiseptic ingredient in pickles.
  • n vinegar Anything really or metaphorically sour; sourness of temper. Also used attributively to signify sour or crabbed.
  • n vinegar In pharmacy, a solution of a medicinal substance in acetic acid, or vinegar; acetum.
  • vinegar To make into vinegar, or make sour like vinegar.
  • vinegar To apply vinegar to; pour vinegar over; also, to mix with vinegar.
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• Interesting fact: Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused the plague, but they knew it was contagious. As a result they wore an early kind of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the head piece, which made them look like large birds, was filled with vinegar, sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the dead and dying plague victims.
• • n Vinegar vin′e-gar 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 Vinegar to apply vinegar to
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• Oscar Wilde

  

  “To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  

  “This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.”
• Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

  

  “Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.”
• French Proverb

  

  “More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.”
• Benjamin Franklin

  

  “A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

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