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ˈpepper-ˌwater 1. An infusion of black pepper, formerly used for microscopical observation of infusorian organisms.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 97 Minute bubbles (that move like Animals in pepper water). 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 159 Those Animalcula, not long since discovered in Pepper-water, by Mr. Lewenhoek, of Delft in Holland. 1766Baker in Phil. Trans. LVI. 71 The seeds of mushrooms, the feathers of butterflies, pepper-water, &c. 2. ? Some kind of soup flavoured with pepper.
1798Sporting Mag. XI. 308, I supped..in his house on mulagatoney or pepper-water. |