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Stum

//stʌm// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Dutch.
Noun
  1. 1
    Unfermented grape juice; must. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine."

  2. 2
    Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become."

Verb
  1. 1
    To ferment. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. obsolete, transitive

    "We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits."

  3. 3
    To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur. obsolete, transitive

    "Since I have taken this method with cyder, it has proved more like wine than common drink, but then I racked it off a second and a third time, as soon as it appeared fine, and then stummed the cask that received it the lasttime […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.

Etymology 2

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dutch Stum.

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