eisel

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Had she commanded me to drink up eisel or eat a crocodile, I would have done it.

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  1. Vinegar. She was lyk thing for hunger deed, That lad her life onely by breed Kneden with eisel strong and egre, And thereto she was lene and megre. Rom. of the Rose, I. 217. Like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of cysel 'gainst my strong infection. Shak., Sonnets, cxi.
  2. [Vinegar was deemed efficacious in preventing contagion.]

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  1. Early modern English also eysell; from Middle English eisel, eysel, aysile, aisille, from Old French aisil, aissil, vinegar, ult. from Latin acetum, vinegar: see ascetic.
 

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