Malt

[mɔːlt;mɒlt] or [mɔlt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling.

(noun.) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer.

(verb.) convert into malt.

(verb.) convert grain into malt.

(verb.) turn into malt, become malt.

(verb.) treat with malt or malt extract; 'malt beer'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

(a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.

(v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

(v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

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解釋/意思:

n. barley or other grain steeped in water allowed to sprout and dried in a kiln used in brewing ale &c.—v.t. to make into malt.—v.i. to become malt: (hum.) to drink malt liquor.—adj. containing or made with malt.—ns. Malt′-dust grain-sprouts produced and 'screened off' in malt-making; Malt′-floor a perforated floor in the chamber of a malt-kiln through which heat rises; Malt′-horse a heavy horse such as used by brewers—hence (Shak.) used in reproach for a dull stupid person; Malt′ing; Malt′-kiln; Malt′-mill a mill for grinding malt; Malt′ose a hard white crystalline sugar formed by the action of malt or diastase on starch; Malt′ster Malt′man one whose trade or occupation it is to make malt (-ster was up to the end of the 13th century a feminine affix); Malt′worm (Shak.) a lover of malted liquors a tippler.—adj. Malt′y.—Malt liquor a liquor as beer ale or porter formed from malt; Malt tea the liquid infusion of the mash in brewing.

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