Ferment: Definition and part of speech

Ferment

  1. n. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  2. n. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
  3. n. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

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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