[f. prec.] trans. To treat with vinegar in some way; to add or apply vinegar to; to restore by means of vinegar. Also fig. Hence Vinegaring vbl. sb.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., III. v. Then, to her Cuz, Hoping, that he hath vinegard his senses, As he was bid, the Faery Queene dispenses, By me this Robe.
1721. Cibber, Rival Fools, V. Ev’n forgive her all…. No, faith! I must crab her, she must be vinegar’d!
1804. W. Irving, in Life & Lett. (1864), I. 89. Where I should be detained, quarantined, smoked, and vinegared.
1831. Bentham, Memorandum-Bk., Wks. 1843, XI. 73. You do as you do by a cucumber, when you cut it into slips to be eaten, when it has been peppered, salted, and vinegared.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., x. The landlady … proceeded to vinegar the forehead, beat the hands, titillate the nose, and unlace the stays of the spinster aunt. Ibid. (1841), Barn. Rudge, xix. After … much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 18 Feb., 2/1. Aurora rose and thrust a smelling-bottle under his nose, tapped his hands, vinegared him.
