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Webster 1913 Edition
Stum
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.
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.]