Vegetable is a term applied to plants, considered as capable of growth, having vessels and parts for this purpose, but generally supposed to be without sensation.
Vinegar is an acid penetrating liquor, prepared from wine, beer, cyder, or a must, which has been fermented as far as it was capable.
Vitriol is, in general, a metalline substance combined with the strongest acid salt known. This acid, being separated from the metal, differs in nothing from that which is extracted from alum or brimstone. It is improperly called spirit of vitriol, when diluted with water, and, with as little propriety, oil, when free from it.
Volatile Bodies are those, which, either from their smallness or their form, do not cohere very strongly together, and being most susceptible of those agitations, which keep liquors in a fluid state, are most easily separated and rarified into vapour, with a gentle heat, and on the contrary condensed and brought down with cold.
Wine is a brisk, agreeable, spirituous, fluid cordial, formed from fermented vegetable bodies. In this sense beers and ales may be called, and really are, barley wines.
Worts are the unfermented extracts of malt.
Yeast is both the flowers and lees of a fermented wort, the former of these being elastic air enveloped in a subject less strong and less consistent than the latter.