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English → English (gcide) Definition: Stum Stum \Stum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming.] To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. [1913 Webster] We stum our wines to renew their spirits. --Floyer. [1913 Webster] Stum \Stum\, n. [D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom.] 1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. [1913 Webster] Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]