Meaning

(obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must.
2. (obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.

Example Sentences

1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become.

To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret.

But stum wine was not intended for drinking.

We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits.

Since I have taken this method with cyder, it has proved more like wine than common drink, but then I racked it off a second and a third time, as soon as it appeared fine, and then stummed the cask that received it the lasttime […]

Word Forms

• stums
• stumming
• stummed

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Use stum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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