vinegar
vinegar the type of something sour and acrid-tasting, as in Proverbs 10:26. Vinegar was offered to Christ on the Cross in response to his words ‘I thirst’; this was later sometimes understood as an infliction of further suffering.
According to Livy, Hannibal cleared a way over the Alps by felling trees, burning logs on the rocks to heat them, and then pouring vinegar over them to make them crumble.
In figurative use, vinegar denotes sourness or peevishness of behaviour, character, or speech.
Vinegar Bible an edition of 1717 by John Baskett, in which one of the running-heads for Luke reads ‘The parable of the vinegar’ instead of ‘The parable of the vineyard’.
Vinegar Hill in the Irish insurrection of 1798, the main rebel encampment, successfully stormed on 21 June, and remembered as the Wexford rebel forces' decisive defeat.
See also from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar.
According to Livy, Hannibal cleared a way over the Alps by felling trees, burning logs on the rocks to heat them, and then pouring vinegar over them to make them crumble.
In figurative use, vinegar denotes sourness or peevishness of behaviour, character, or speech.
Vinegar Bible an edition of 1717 by John Baskett, in which one of the running-heads for Luke reads ‘The parable of the vinegar’ instead of ‘The parable of the vineyard’.
Vinegar Hill in the Irish insurrection of 1798, the main rebel encampment, successfully stormed on 21 June, and remembered as the Wexford rebel forces' decisive defeat.
See also from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar.
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