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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.
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We stum our wines to renew their spirits. --Floyer.
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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.
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Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
--B. Jonson.
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And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
--Dryden.
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2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the
admixture of must. --Hudibras.
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