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stum |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stum \Stum\, n. [D. stom must new wort, properly, dumb; cf F. vin muet stum. Cf {Stammer}, {Stoom}.] 1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. --B. Jonson And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause --Dryden. 2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must --Hudibras. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stum \Stum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stummed}; p. pr & vb n. {Stumming}.] To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. We stum our wines to renew their spirits. --Floyer.
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