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
(Zoöl.), 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 (Chem.), a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to
oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum. — Vinegar plant.
See 4th Mother. — Vinegar tree (Bot.), the stag-horn sumac (Rhus
typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness
of vinegar. — Wood vinegar. See under Wood.
Vin"e*gar, v. t. 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.
B. Jonson.
Vin`e*gar*ette" (?), n. See Vinaigrette, n., 2.
Vin"e*gar*y (?), a. Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.