vinal

alternative vinylal

1. USuncountablepolyvinyl alcohol fibers

1. not comparableProduced by, or originating in, wine.

   Their vinal Steams evaporating, they / Felt of their uſual Vigour a Decay;[…]

   a. 1700, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, volume II, London: […] John Wyat […], published 1721, book XI, page 313

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   To return then to the great chanel, and thread of our Diſcourse, the examples and experiment which I have already inſiſted upon in confirmation of the reaſons which I have alleged, do dearly demonſtrate, that the bodies which draw the atomes diſpersed in the aire, attract unto themſelves with a greater power and energy ſuch as are of their own nature, than ſuch as are heterogeneous, and of a ſtrange nature; As wine doth the vinal ſpirits;[…]

   1658, R. White, transl., A Late Discourse Made in a Solemn Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, by Sir Kenelm Digby, Kᵗ. &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy. With Instructions How to Make the Said Powder; Whereby Many Other Secrets of Nature Are Unfolded., 4th edition, London: […] J G […], published 1664, page 110

   But, alas, the red wine which he sent to the boatmen took the taste of the bargeman’s wife, a red-faced sot of a woman. She drank it to the last drop, and then flew to arms and almost murdered a servant wench with oyster-shells. Then she rushed on deck, tackled her husband, and tried to pitch him overboard. There is vinal energy for you.

   1894, James Anthony Froude, Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893–4, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 230–231

1. uncountableProsopis ruscifolia