Word Meanings - VINEGAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like. Note: The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of

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1. A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like. Note: The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of which it contains from three to five per cent. Wine vinegar contains also tartaric acid, citric acid, etc. 2. Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically. Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. Shak. Aromatic vinegar, strong acetic acid highly flavored with aromatic substances. -- Mother of vinegar. See 4th Mother. -- Radical vinegar, acetic acid. -- Thieves' vinegar. See under Thief. -- Vinegar eel , a minute nematode worm (Leptodera oxophila, or Anguillula acetiglutinis), commonly found in great numbers in vinegar, sour paste, and other fermenting vegetable substances; -- called also vinegar worm. -- Vinegar lamp , a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum. -- Vinegar plant. See 4th Mother. -- Vinegar tree , the stag-horn sumac , whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar. -- Wood vinegar. See under Wood.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• VINEGARY
  Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• CONDIMENT
  Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.
• VINEGARETTE
  See 2
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• OXIDATION
  The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• LIQUIDLY
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• LIQUIDATOR
  1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• CIDERIST
  A maker of cider. Mortimer.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• PYROACETIC
  Pertaining to, and designating, a substance obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.
• PEROXIDATION
  Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.