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