About The Word Stum
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Stum
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What's The Definition Of Stum?Synonyms | Synonyms for Stum: Related Terms | Find terms related to Stum: See Also | Stum In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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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