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Definition of 'stum'English
Noun
Unfermented grape juice; must.
* Ben Jonson
- Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
* Dryden
- And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
* {{quote-book
|year=1664
|year_published=1835
|author=
|title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1
|page=265
|section=Part II, Canto 1
|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PsQf26jDVSkC&pg=PA265
|passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum , And make it brisk champaign become. [
]Verb
( en-verb)
to ferment
to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
- We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.
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