Vinegar /(?)/

Vin·e·gar

Vinegar

n.
  1. 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.
  2. Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.
    Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.

Phrases & Compounds
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 (Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.
Wood vinegar
See under Wood.

Vinegar

v. t.
  1. To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp. [Obs.]
    Hoping that he hath vinegared his senses As he was bid.