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Ferment
FER'MENT, n. [L. fermentum, from fervo, to boil. See Fervent.]
1. A gentle boiling; or the internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid.
[In this sense it is rarely used. See Fermentation.]
2. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation; as, to put the passions in a ferment; the state of people are in a ferment.
Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
3. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
FERMENT', v.t. [L. fermento.]
To set in motion; to excite internal motion; to heat; to raise by intestine motion.
While youth ferments the blood.
FERMENT', v.i. To work; to effervesce; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid. To the vinous fermentation we apply the term, work. We say that new cider, beer or wine ferments or works. But work is not applied to the other kinds of fermentation.
ferment appears in definitions for these words:
Abstractitious Acetum Addition Ady Ale Ale-vat Arrack Bac Barm Beer Bragget Brew Brewed Carbonic Cider Clarify Counterferment Crout Depuration Dunder Ebullition Effervesce Emication Ferment Fermentable Fermentation Fermentative Fermentativeness Fermented Flower Foam Fret Froth Fry Galenic Grape Heat Heavy Honey Hydromel Indicate Krout Kumiss Leaven Leavened Leavening Liquor Low-wines Malt Mead Metheglin Mowburn Must Perry Quas Re-ferment Regenerate Scum Settle Simmer Stoom Stum Sugar Tartar Unfermented Vinegar Vinous Wash Wine Work Worked Working Wort Yeast Zumic Zumologist Zumology Zumosimeter
Abstractitious Acetum Addition Ady Ale Ale-vat Arrack Bac Barm Beer Bragget Brew Brewed Carbonic Cider Clarify Counterferment Crout Depuration Dunder Ebullition Effervesce Emication Ferment Fermentable Fermentation Fermentative Fermentativeness Fermented Flower Foam Fret Froth Fry Galenic Grape Heat Heavy Honey Hydromel Indicate Krout Kumiss Leaven Leavened Leavening Liquor Low-wines Malt Mead Metheglin Mowburn Must Perry Quas Re-ferment Regenerate Scum Settle Simmer Stoom Stum Sugar Tartar Unfermented Vinegar Vinous Wash Wine Work Worked Working Wort Yeast Zumic Zumologist Zumology Zumosimeter
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