stum Meaning, Definition & Usage

Stum noun

Etymology

D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom.

Definitions

1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.

   Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. B. Jonson.

   And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. Dryden.

2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras.

Stum transitive verb

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Stummed ; present participle & verbal noun Stumming

Definitions

1. To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

   We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer.