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Brewing : (noun)
1: the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt
and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the
result with yeast
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Brewing : \Brew"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed,
as beer and ale.
2. The quantity brewed at once.
A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. --Bacon.
3. A mixing together.
I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such
a brewing and sophistication of them they make.
--Holland.
4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall,
indicated by thick, dark clouds.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Brew \Brew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brewing.] [OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen,
OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br?wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga,
Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled
down, Gr. ? (for ??) a kind of beer. The original meaning
seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. Broth,
Bread.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops,
or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and
fermentation. ``She brews good ale.'' --Shak.
3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak.
4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot;
to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
--Milton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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