Brew
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
brew
n 1: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather
than distilling [syn: {brew}, {brewage}]
v 1: prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for
thousands of years"
2: sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
"the tea is brewing"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brew \Brew\ (br[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brewed} (br[udd]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Brewing}.] [OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin
to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br[=u]wen, G.
brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to
L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. bry^ton (for fry^ton?) a
kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to
prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. {Broth}, {Bread}.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
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2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops,
or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and
fermentation. "She brews good ale." --Shak.
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3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
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Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak.
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4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot;
to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
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Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
--Milton.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brew \Brew\, v. i.
1. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of
brewing or making beer.
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I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. --Shak.
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2. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or
gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
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There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
272 Moby Thesaurus words for "brew":
John Barleycorn, Pilsner, alcohol, alcoholic beverage,
alcoholic drink, ale, angle, approach, aqua vitae, ardent spirits,
await, bake, barbecue, baste, bathe, be imminent, be in store,
beer, begin, besprinkle, beverage, bitters, blanch, blast, blossom,
blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up,
bluster, bock beer, boil, bootleg, booze, braise, breathe, breeze,
breeze up, bring about, broil, brown, burgeon, cabal, cause,
coddle, collude, color, combination, come on, come up, complot,
compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, confection,
confront, connive, conspire, contrive, cook, cook up, countermine,
counterplot, curry, decoct, decoction, decoctum, develop, devil,
devise, distill, do, do to perfection, douche, draw near,
draw nigh, draw on, dredge, drench, drink, drouk, dye, engineer,
entincture, face, ferment, finagle, finesse, fire, fix up, flavor,
flourish, flush, form, forthcome, frame, frame up, freshen,
fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gather, germinate, get up, go on,
griddle, grill, grog, grow, grow up, half-and-half, hang over,
hard liquor, hash, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, heat, hodgepodge,
hover, huff, hypertrophy, imbrue, imbue, impend, impregnate,
increase, inebriant, infiltrate, infuse, inject, instill,
intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, intrigue, jumble, lager beer,
lave, lay a plot, leach, leaven, lie over, light beer, liquor,
little brown jug, lixiviate, loom, lower, macerate, machinate,
make, make up, malt liquor, maneuver, mature, mead, medley,
melange, menace, mishmash, mix, mixture, moonlight, moonshine,
mushroom, near, near beer, operate, outgrow, oven-bake,
overdevelop, overgrow, overhang, overtop, pan, pan-broil, parboil,
pastiche, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pipe up, plan,
plot, poach, porter, potable, potation, potpourri, prepare,
prepare food, procreate, produce, puff, pullulate, pulque,
punch bowl, put together, rage, reproduce, rig, rinse, roast, rum,
sake, salad, saturate, saute, scallop, scheme, schnapps, sear,
season, seethe, set in, shirr, shoot up, simmer, soak,
social lubricant, sodden, sop, souse, spirits, spring up, sprout,
sprout up, squall, start, steam, steep, stew, stir-fry, storm,
stout, strong drink, strong waters, suffuse, tea, temper,
the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl,
the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, threaten, thrive, tincture,
tinge, toast, tower, toxicant, transfuse, upshoot, upspear,
upspring, upsprout, vegetate, waft, wangle, wash, water of life,
waterlog, wax, whiff, whiffle
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