Brew: Definition and part of speech

Brew

  1. n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
  2. v. t. To boil or seethe; to cook.
  3. v. t. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
  4. v. t. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
  5. v. t. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
  6. v. i. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  7. v. i. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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