Brewing
['bruːɪŋ] or ['brʊɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brew
(n.) The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
(n.) The quantity brewed at once.
(n.) A mixing together.
(n.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust persecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove your innocence and will rise far above your persecutors. Brewing in any way in your dreams, denotes anxiety at the outset, but usually ends in profit and satisfaction.
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Examples
- And arterwards, crushing a flowing wine-cup--which I allude to brewing rum and water--we'll pledge one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No brewing was going on in it, and none seemed to have gone on for a long long time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I suspect you and he are brewing some bad polities, else you would not be seeing so much of the lively man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Glucose syrup, however, has largely superseded all other table syrups, and is extensively used in brewing, for cheap candies, and for bee food. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Such a precious loud hymn, Sammy, while the tea was a brewing; such a grace, such eatin' and drinkin'! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the commercial application of chemistry the work of Louis Pasteur in _fermenting_ and _brewing_ deserves special notice as making a great advance in this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There is a great trouble brewing--my husband and Eustacia! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What new witchcraft has Tops been brewing? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I knew there was mischief brewing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His United States patent, No. 141,072, July 22, 1873, deals with the manufacture of yeast for brewing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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