verjuicen.
/ˈvəːdʒuːs/, U.S. /ˈvərdʒəs/ 1. † b. In figurative phrases to crowd, crush, squeeze to verjuice. Obsolete.
a. The acid juice of green or unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit, expressed and formed into a liquor; formerly much used in cooking, as a condiment, or for medicinal purposes. Also in comparisons as, as sour (bitter, tart, etc.) as verjuice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > juice of unripe fruit
verjuice1302
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > general plant-derived medicines
savineOE
liquoricec1275
verjuice1302
sandragon1334
sugar roset1363
acaciaa1398
agnus castusa1398
sebestenc1400
socotrine aloesa1425
tapsimelc1425
valencec1425
aconitum?a1450
hypericum1471
cassia1543
guaiacum1553
guaiac1558
butcher's broom1578
solanum1578
liquorice-stick1580
symphonia1597
tabasheer1598
diascord1605
orange-bead1626
oxymel of squills1654
Japonic earth1673
terebinthina1693
terebinthinate1696
pareira brava1698
rhabarbarate1716
Japan earth1718
buglossate1725
squill1725
phytolacca1730
nettle juice1747
xanthoxyloïn1767
mustard whey1769
Jesuits' drops1783
digitalis1785
arnica1788
mel-rose1790
gallic acid1791
valerian1794
sacred elixir1797
drosera1801
Spanish juice1803
mudar1819
sabadilla1821
parillin1825
mudarin1829
salicin1830
sang1843
peppermint camphor1854
pareira1855
savanilla1856
euonymin1862
menthol1862
phytolaccin1864
alstonia1868
agoniadin1870
guimauve1870
gelsemium1875
iridin1879
hazeline1880
tub-camphor1880
echinacea1887
jacaranda1887
hamamelin1890
quillain1890
vieirin1893
thiolin1894
mentha camphor1902
hamamelis1910
phytohaemagglutinin1949
adaptogen1966
α.
figurative.c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2526 They must have veriuice that will squeese such crabbes.1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss v. iii 'S foot this Fat Bishop hath..so squelch'd and squeez'd me, I've no verjuice left in me.1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 269 Take heed of matching with one of the daughters of Heth; he that graffs into a crab-stock, is like never to want verjuice.β. 1349–50 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 551 In 16 lag. de vergeous.1392 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 155 Et pro viij galonibus vergws.a1400 Leg. Holy Rood viii. 175 Ȝit Moyses in Rule haþ rad, We schulde ete vr lomb in sour vergeous.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxlvii. 134 I serue of vinegre and of vergeous, and of greynes þat ben soure.c1440 Douce MS. 55 f. 7 Then take..a quantite of vertious & saffron & salte & cast ther to.1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A barell with wergoys, and a botel for wynne.1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.ii It ought for to be eten with grene garlyke or with sorell or tender vynes or vergyus in somer season.1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 65 b Boile it in iii glasses full of good vergeous or whyte wyne.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 57 Some adde therevnto Vergius, or the iuyce of soure Grapes, to make the taste more tarte.γ. 1412–3 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 75 De vuis..pro vergis inde fact'.c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 662/13 Hoc ius uiride, warius [printed warins].1527 Luton Trin. Guild (1906) 186 Payd..for j galone of wargis.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiiiiv Somtyme parde I must vse largesse ye mary somtyme in a messe of vergesse.1557 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 64 ij barrells to keepe varges in.1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 22v Be sure of vergis..so good for the kitchen.1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lxxi. 148 You shall then onely giue it a pint of strong verdges to drinke.1630 J. Taylor Praise, Antiqvitie, & Commoditie of Beggerie in Wks. i. 97/2 And for a Sauce he seldom is at Charges, For euery Crabtree, doth affoord him Vergis.1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 102 Make a posset of Varges or Vinigar and Milke, bath the joynt very hot therewith.1837 T. Hood Ode to Dr. Hahnemann 38 A drop of ‘varges’.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 375 As sour as vargis.1904 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 103 Cyder is made from the rotting Crabs; also a kind of vinegar called verjuice or vargis.1302–3 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 18 Pro j barillo ad verious.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 619 Viridis succus, veriuys.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 508/2 Veriowce, sawce, agresta.
1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. 33 Make him drynke of verious and watir.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 115 A calf-lyuer skorde With the veryose: Good sawse, This is a restorité To make a good appeté.
1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 187 A brake to make verioyce with.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe ii. f. viv The iuce of purcelane, of plantayne, and vergiouce of grapes or crabbes.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 71 Crabs after the veriuice is expressed from them.
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iii. iii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 162 Having a crabbed face of her own, she'll eat the less Verjuyce with her Mutton.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra vi. 13 II. 22 Their obedience was wrung out of them, as verjuice is out of a crab.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory x. 232 Beat Pumice Stones to an impalpable Powder, and mix it up with Verjuice.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 124 The good Effects of Vinegar, Verjuice, Spirits of Wine, in Sprains.
1853 J. F. Royle Man. Materia Med. (ed. 2) 358 When unripe the fruit is remarkable for the harsh acidity of its juice, which is then called verjuice.
1881 Harper's Mag. July 266 To distort the face as if one were quaffing verjuice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press, squeeze, or pinch [verb (intransitive)] > crush
to crowd, crush, squeeze to verjuice1605
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C2v And that sowre crab do but leere at thee, I shall squeeze him to vargis.
a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooo2/2 They love a man that crushes 'em to verjuce.
a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggggg3/2 They have crowded me to Vergis, I sweat like a Butter-box.
2. In figurative use, with reference to the characteristic acidity or sourness of verjuice.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [noun]
gallc1175
sourness1482
fellc1494
acerbitya1538
tartness1548
acrimony1597
verjuice1598
vinegara1616
acidness1660
asperity1664
thorniness1674
acidity1687
acerbitude1727
acridity1753
vitriol1769
souredness1858
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C5 Oh how the varges from his blacke pen wrung, Would sauce the Idiome of the English tongue.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia vi. sig. E2 To mittigate The sharp tart veriuice of his snap-haunce hate.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. i. 97 in Wks. II Hang him, an austere grape, That has no iuice, but what is veriuice in him.
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 2 The Devil of envy suck'd it all out, and left verjuice in the roome.
1759 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. 543 To be sure there must be an infinite deal of verjuice in her composition!
1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings xviii, in Wks. (1816) II. 209 The heart should be a medlar, not a crab; Milk, and not Verjuice, from its fount should flow.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed vi, in Tales Crusaders II. 130 Raoul, glancing towards her a look of verjuice [etc.].
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. xi. 219 Miss Budd, although she said nothing, looked vinegar and verjuice.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets iv. 101 The temper of his proposed son-in-law was a mixture of gall, wormwood, vinegar, verjuice, vitriol and nitric acid.
Compounds
attributive or as adj.† c.
a. Simple attributive, as verjuice barrel, verjuice bottle, verjuice brake, verjuice house, verjuice sauce, verjuice tub, verjuice vessel.
ΚΠ
1432 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 91 A vergyous barell.
c1450 Two Cookery Bks. 103 The sauce is vergyus sauce or sauce ginger.
1516–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 106 Pro ostiis le Weriushouse.
1551–60 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1887) 150 A verguys tubbe.
1578 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 134 In the buttrie..a kitt, a vergious brake.
1588 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1893) 150 ij kneadinge tubes, iij cheises, ij verges barrells.
1629 Inventory Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1889) New Ser. 3 161 In the West Larder..8 vergis vessells.
b. Passing into adjective in the sense of ‘bitter, sour, sour-looking’, as verjuice countenance, verjuice face, verjuice wit.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective]
bitter?c1225
sour?c1225
envenomedc1375
envenomousa1420
crabbed1565
gallish1595
verjuice1598
vinegar-tart1599
soury1647
acrid1681
acrious1682
sourish1688
embittered1694
subacid1760
verjuiced1836
acidulent1837
vinaigrous1837
vinegar1847
vinegary1847
soured1848
acerbic1853
acidulous1865
acerbate1869
acerbitous1870
snake-headed1920
sour-pussed1952
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Perusers sig. B4v I dare defend my plainnes gainst the veriuyce face, of the crabbed'st Satyrist that euer stuttered.
1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. iii She scarce will let me kisse her, But shee makes vergisse faces.
a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O4v, in Five New Playes (1653) Thou hast a verjuice wit.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 162 A verjuice countenance..is no such temptation.
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 12 You bear the basket prettily, with a verjuice face.
verjuice grape n. one or other variety of grape suitable for the making of verjuice (cf. quot. 1725 and French verjus a sour or green grape). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape > type of
labruscaa1398
muscadel1517
muscadine1598
olive grape1601
grapeletc1620
burlace1629
frontignaca1642
fox-grape1648
verjuice grape1648
muscat1655
morillon1691
muscatel1691
grapeling1694
chasselas1699
muscadella1707
frontignan1756
Morocco1763
Pineau1763
Malaga1769
wild grape1770
Nebbiolo1788
Macabeo1794
Malbec1833
Hamburg grape1838
muscadel1852
Concord grape1858
garnacha1860
sultana grape1861
Canaiolo1862
dyer1865
Sémillon1875
Bual1882
lady's finger1892
Grignolino1894
Tokay grape1896
Durif1897
Morocco grape1908
Viognier1908
gros Colmar1927
Montepulciano1927
Shiraz1927
Verdicchio1940
Cinsault1945
Müller-Thurgau1951
Mavrud1959
Pinotage1964
Mavron1965
Syrah1969
Parellada1979
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Verjuys-bésien, verjus or Sowre grapes.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxv. 115 The great red grapes, the muscadine, the verjuice grape.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 74 in Sylva The Verjuyce-grape excellent for sauce, &c.
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. xi. 52 Having planted your Trees, you ought..to set some Chasselas, or Verjuice Grapes, about your Squares.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) There are three sorts of Grapes to which they properly give the Name of Verjuice, viz. the Gouais, Farineus, and Bourdelas, otherwise le Grey; and 'tis from these three that they commonly press Verjuice.
Derivatives
ˈverjuice v. (transitive) to embitter, make sour.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [verb (transitive)]
ranklec1487
infester1570
festering1615
rancour1654
verjuice1848
out-sharpen1864
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > make bitter [verb (transitive)]
fester?1548
infester1570
embitter1635
rancour1654
verjuice1848
1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (1865) 217 His sermons with satire are plenteously verjuiced.
1892 W. G. Thorpe Still Life Mid. Temple 3 Sir John Key, where the inherent rhyme to ‘donkey’ verjuiced the baronetcy.
ˈverjuiced adj.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective]
bitter?c1225
sour?c1225
envenomedc1375
envenomousa1420
crabbed1565
gallish1595
verjuice1598
vinegar-tart1599
soury1647
acrid1681
acrious1682
sourish1688
embittered1694
subacid1760
verjuiced1836
acidulent1837
vinaigrous1837
vinegar1847
vinegary1847
soured1848
acerbic1853
acidulous1865
acerbate1869
acerbitous1870
snake-headed1920
sour-pussed1952
1836 W. H. Maxwell Capt. Blake xv The maid was a verjuiced spinster.
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