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Webster 1913 Edition


Stum

Stum

,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stum

STUM

,
Noun.
[G.]
1.
Must; wine unfermented.
2.
New wine used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines.
3.
Wine revived by a new fermentation.

STUM

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To renew wine by mixing must with it, and raising a new fermentation.
We stum our wines to renew their spirits.
2.
To fume a cask or liquor with burning brimstone. [Local.]

Definition 2024


stum

stum

English

Noun

stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)

  1. Unfermented grape juice; must.
    • Ben Jonson
      Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
    • Dryden
      And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
  2. Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
    • 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1, published 1835, Part II, Canto 1, page 265:
      Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum,
      And make it brisk champaign become.[footnotes 1]

Verb

stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stuming, simple past and past participle stumed)

  1. (transitive) to ferment
  2. (transitive) to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
    We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer.

References

  1. T. R. Nash disputed the sense, noting "Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, has quoted these lines to prove that stum may signify wine revived by a new fermentation, but, perhaps, it means no more than figuratively to say that the rememberance of the widow's charms could turn bad wine into good, foul muddy wine, into clear sparkling champaigne."

Anagrams


Latvian

Verb

stum

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of stumt
  2. 2nd person singular imperative form of stumt

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

stum

  1. mute; unable to speak

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