brew

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

   • Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
2. 2

   To heat wine, infusing it with spices

   To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

   • Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
3. 3

   To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

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   1. 4

      To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet…

      To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

   2. 5

      To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

      • Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
   3. 6

      To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

      • I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
   4. 7

      To be in a state of preparation

      To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

      • There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
      • Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.
      • Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.
   5. 8

      To boil or seethe

      To boil or seethe; to cook.

      • She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
   6. 9

      The mixture formed by brewing

      The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

      • Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
   7. 10

      A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.

      • In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
   8. 11

      An overhanging hill or cliff.

   9. 12

      A surname.

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