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n. [ F., fr. vinaigre vinegar. ] 1. (Cookery) A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. vinaigre vinegar. ] 1. Resembling vinegar; sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Fig. ]: Unamiable; morose. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Chem.) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. vinhatico. ] Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) (a) Same as Lazarist. (b) A member of certain charitable sisterhoods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]