Malt
[mɔːlt;mɒlt] or [mɔlt]
Definition
(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'.
Editor: Xenia--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Helga
Definition
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.
Editor: Terence
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of malt, betokens a pleasant existence and riches that will advance your station. To dream of taking malted drinks, denotes that you will interest yourself in some dangerous affair, but will reap much benefit therefrom.
Typist: Remington
Unserious Contents or Definition
A humble grain which often gets into a ferment, cools off and becomes Stout in its old age.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Manufacturing of malt by the pneumatic process, and stirring malt during germination, are among the improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The maltster, indeed, instead of a tax of six shillings, would be obliged to advance one of eighteen shilling upon every quarter of malt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The prices of malt and oats seem here to lie higher than their ordinary proportion to the price of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Either on account of this composition, however, or for other reasons, it is not near so common to malt as to brew for private use. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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