STUM
\stˈʌm], \stˈʌm], \s_t_ˈʌ_m]\
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Unfermented grape-juice; must or new wine, often mixed with dead or vapid wine to raise a new fermentation; wine revived by being made by must to ferment anew. Hudibras.
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To renew by mixing with must and fermenting anew. "We stum our wines to renew their spirits."-Sir J. Floyer: to fume a cask with brimstone.
By Daniel Lyons
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