stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)
(obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must.
(obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stumming, simple past and past participle stummed)
(transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
(transitive, obsolete) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
(transitive, obsolete) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
• MTUs, UMTS, must, smut, tums
Source: Wiktionary
Stum, n. Etym: [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.]
Definition: To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
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