2 entries under this word

Stum

Stŭm, n.

noun

n. [D. stom, must, new wort. Cf. Stoom.] 1. Unfermented grape-juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. Let our wines, without mixture or stum, be all fine. B. Jonson. Bad affections (like stum or poison) are impetuous. Barrow. 2. Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras.

Stŭm, v. t.

verbtransitive

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

We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer.

Sense 2. To fume a cask of liquor with burning brimstone. [Prov. Eng.] C. Richardson.