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De - Pt| English Dictionary: stum | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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]: | |
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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. | |
