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STUM: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
    
  2. \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.
    
 

 

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