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

• must, smut, tums, UMTS, UTMS

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

Related terms

• stumhet
• stumfilm