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Stum

Stum \Stum\, v. 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.

Stum

Stum \Stum\, n. [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.

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stum

n. 1 unfermented grape juice; must. 2 Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to ferment 2 (context transitive English) to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation

Usage examples of "stum".

Others were stum- bling out to safety in hysterics, many coughing from the smoke that was beginning to possess the whole restaurant.

After them went Naxa, Ment the Sweeper, Min, and Stum, and then Bress the Carpenter, Hilth of the Builders, Ijo the Scholar, Scardil the Butcher.

As for dealing with the dyspepsia, he had never in his life seen so many palliatives for it available -- Stums and Windkill and Eupep and (magnificent proleptic onomatopoesis, the work of some high-paid Madison Avenue genius, sincerely admired by Enderby) Aaaarp.