stum

Meanings

Noun

Unfermented grape juice; must.
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.

Verb

To ferment.
To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.

Origin

From Dutch stom. Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. shtum.

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