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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brew \Brew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brewed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Brewing}.] [OE. brewen, AS bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen
OHG. priuwan MHG. briuwen br?wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga
Sw brygga Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled
down Gr ? (for ??) a kind of beer. The original meaning
seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf {Broth},
{Bread}.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops,
or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and
fermentation. ``She brews good ale.'' --Shak.
3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak.
4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot;
to concoct; to hatch; as to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
--Milton.
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