Brew

[bruː] or [brʊ]

Definition

(noun.) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling.

(verb.) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; 'the tea is brewing'.

(verb.) prepare by brewing; 'people have been brewing beer for thousands of years'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.

(v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

(v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

(v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

(v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

(v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

(n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Prepare by fermentation.[2]. Contrive, plot, devise, project, hatch, concoct, foment, excite, stir up.

v. n. [1]. Make beer.[2]. Be gathering, be forming.

Typist: Morton

Definition

v.t. to prepare a liquor as from malt and other materials: to contrive or plot.—v.i. to perform the operation of brewing ale or beer: to be gathering or forming.—ns. Brew′age something brewed: mixed liquor; Brew′er one who brews; Brew′ery Brew′-house a place for brewing; Brew′ing the act of making liquor from malt: the quantity brewed at once; Brew′ster (now only Scot.) a brewer.

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