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Stum
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. [1913 Webster]"Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine." [1913 Webster]"And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause." [1913 Webster]
- Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Stum, v. t.
To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. [1913 Webster]
"We stum our wines to renew their spirits."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Stum, n. & v.
--n. unfermented grape-juice; must.
--v.tr. (stummed, stumming)
1 prevent from fermenting, or secure (wine) against further fermentation in a cask, by the use of sulphur etc.
2 renew the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.
--n. unfermented grape-juice; must.
--v.tr. (stummed, stumming)
1 prevent from fermenting, or secure (wine) against further fermentation in a cask, by the use of sulphur etc.
2 renew the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.
Etymology
Du. stommen (v.), stom (n.) f. stom (adj.) dumb
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