stum
Americannoun
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unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
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wine in which increased fermentation has taken place because of the addition of stum.
verb (used with object)
noun
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a less common word for must 3
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partly fermented wine added to fermented wine as a preservative
verb
Etymology
Origin of stum
1650–60; < Dutch stom dumb, dull; compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein, in the same sense
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Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50.
From Time Magazine Archive
Work it with your paddle for half an hour; then put one quart of stum forcing to it, which will unite their bodies, and likewise make it fine and bright.
From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Thomas Chapman
Melca ... stum; List. mel castum, refined honey; Tac.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
Nor shall I, when you hither come, Demand a crown a-quart for stum.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
This will make it a little flat, to remedy which you must rack it clean from it's bottoms, and throw a quart of stum forcing to it.
From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Thomas Chapman
Much of the confusion stummed from the number of people involved in the decision.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2013
You cannot drink a draught of nectar, arranged on the plan of certain glasses of liqueur, in superimposed layers of different savour and colour, when every other layer is "stummed" folly or nauseous bad taste.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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