Thieves' vinegar

	a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London.
	See under Thief.

See also: Thief, Vinegar

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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