VINEGAR
\vˈɪnɪɡə], \vˈɪnɪɡə], \v_ˈɪ_n_ɪ_ɡ_ə]\
Definitions of VINEGAR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
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Hence, anything sour; - used also metaphorically.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
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Hence, anything sour; - used also metaphorically.
By Noah Webster.
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Product of the oxidation of ethanol and of the destructive distillation of wood. It is used locally, occasionally internally, as a counterirritant and also as a reagent. (Stedman, 26th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sour liquid obtained by fermentation from cider, wine, etc, and used to season or perserve food; hence, anything sour.
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Vinegary.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An acid liquid obtained from the fermentation of an alcoholic liquid, as cider; figuratively, anything sour.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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