stum

[Dut. stom =unfermented wine, wine that has not worked, from stom, Ger. stumm; Dan. & Sw.stum=dumb, mute.] 1. Unfermented grape-juice; must or new wine, often mixed with dead or vapid wine to raise a new fermentation. "An unctuous clammy vapor, that arises from the stum of grapes, when they lie mashed in the vats."- Add is on : Travels in Italy . IMG:content-0456.png:[blocks in formation] "There is a hard green wine that grows about Rochel, and the islands thereabouts, which the cunning Hollander sometimes uses to fetch; and he hath a trick to put a bag of herbs, or some other infusions into it (as he doth brimstone in Rhenish), to give it a whiter tincture, and more sweetne ; then they reimbark it for England, where it pa eth for good Bachrag, and this is called stumming of wines." -Howell : Letters, bk. ii., let. 54. 2. To fume, as a cask, with brimstone. (Proυ. Eng .) stumble, *stom-el-en, *stom-ble, *stom-elyn, *stum-mel-yn, *stom-er-en, v . i . & t . [Icel. stumra to stumble; Norw.stumra ; Sw. dial. stam bla , stamula , stomia , stammra . ] IMG:content-0457.png:[blocks in formation] Beaum. & Flet.: Humorous Lieutenant , iii. 2.