stum (stum)

[Also dial. stoom; will also stum it. When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, Expect false Latin and stum'd Wine. Prior , Upon a Pa age in Scaligeriana. Sir J. Floyer. We stum our wines to renew their spirits. 2. To fume with sulphur or brimstone, as a cask. [Prov. Eng.] stumble (stum'bl), v.; pret. and pp. stumbled, ppr. stumbling. [ He made the kynge Rion for to stomble , that was sory for his brasen malle that he hadde so loste. IMG:content-2320.png:[blocks in formation] One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. Locke . We do not wonder he [President Edwards] was stumbled with this difficulty, for it is simply fatal to his theory. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 616.