stum

American  

[stuhm] / stʌm /

noun

1. unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.

2. wine in which increased fermentation has taken place because of the addition of stum.

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verb (used with object)

stummed, stumming

1. to increase the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.

stum British  

/ stʌm /

noun

1. a less common word for must 3

2. partly fermented wine added to fermented wine as a preservative

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verb

1. to preserve (wine) by adding stum

Etymology

Origin of stum

1650–60; < Dutch stom dumb, dull; compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein, in the same sense

Example Sentences

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stum stummed

Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Browning, William Ernst

To stum wine is to renew dead and insipid wine by mixing new wine with it and so raising a fresh fermentation. cf.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Afore we knowed it a’most, he was down and lying flat on his stum.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville

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 Chapman, Thomas

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 Saintsbury, George