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Webster 1913 Edition

Brew

Brew

(brṳ)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Brewed
(brṳd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Brewing
.]
[OE.
brewen
, AS.
breówan
; akin to D.
brouwen
, OHG.
priuwan
, MHG.
briuwen
,
brūwen
, G.
brauen
, Icel.
brugga
, Sw.
brygga
, Dan.
brygge
, and perh. to L.
defrutum
must boiled down, Gr.
βρῦτον
(for
φρῦτον
?) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been
to prepare by heat
. √93. Cf.
Broth
,
Bread
.]
1.
To boil or seethe; to cook.
[Obs.]
2.
To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
“She brews good ale.”
Shak.
3.
To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go,
brew
me a pottle of sack finely.
Shakespeare
4.
To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch;
as, to
brew
mischief
.
Hence with thy
brewed
enchantments, foul deceiver!
Milton.

Brew

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
I wash, wring,
brew
, bake, scour.
Shakespeare
2.
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering;
as, a storm
brews
in the west
.
There is some ill a-
brewing
towards my rest.
Shakespeare

Brew

,
Noun.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition

Brew

BREW

,
Verb.
T.
1.
In a general sense, to boil, and mix; hence in Saxon, it signifies broth or pottage; Old. Eng. brewis.
2.
In a more restricted sense, to make beer, ale or other similar liquor from malt; or to prepare a liquor from malt and hops, and in private families, from other materials, by steeping, boiling and fermentation.
3.
To mingle.
Brew me a pottle of sack.
4.
To contrive; to plot; as, to brew mischief.
5.
To put in a state of preparation.

BREW

,
Verb.
I.
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming or collecting; as, a storm brews in the west. In this sense I do not recollect the use of the verb, in a transitive sense, and generally the participle only is used; as, a storm is brewing.
1.
To perform the business of brewing or making beer; as, she can brew, wash and bake.

BREW

,
Noun.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

Definition 2024

brew

brew

English

Verb

brew ‎(third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

  1. (transitive) To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
  2. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
    • John Milton
      Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
  3. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  4. (intransitive) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
    • William Shakespeare
      There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
    • 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
      Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.
  5. (transitive, Britain, New Zealand) To make a cup of tea.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Translations

Noun

brew ‎(plural brews)

  1. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
  2. (slang) A beer.
  3. (Britain, New Zealand) A cup of tea.
  4. (Britain, informal) A hill.

Translations

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰruHs

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [brɛf]

Noun

brew f

  1. eyebrow

Declension

Etymology

Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-, *bʰreh₁w- (compare Welsh berw ‎(“boiling”), Latin fervēre, Albanian mbruaj ‎(“to knead”), Russian бруя́ ‎(brujá, “current”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् ‎(bhurván, “motion of water”)).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bro͞o, IPA(key): /bɹuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

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