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brew

[broo] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object)

1.	to make (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermenting malt and hops.

2.	to make or prepare (a beverage, as tea) by mixing, steeping, soaking, or boiling a solid in water.

3.	to concoct, mix, or cook (a beverage or food, esp. one containing unmeasured or unusual ingredients): She brewed a pot of soup from the leftovers.

4.	to contrive, plan, or bring about: to brew mischief.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to make a fermented alcoholic malt beverage, as beer or ale.

6.	to boil, steep, soak, or cook: Wait until the tea brews.

–noun

7.	a quantity brewed in a single process.

8.	a particular brewing or variety of malt liquor.

9.	a hot beverage made by cooking a solid in water, esp. tea or coffee.

10.	any concoction, esp. a liquid produced by a mixture of unusual ingredients: a witches' brew.

11.

Informal.

a.	beer or ale.

b.	an individual serving of beer or ale: Let's have a few brews after the game.

—Idiom

12.	be brewing, to be forming or gathering; be in preparation: Trouble was brewing.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME brewen, OE bréowan; akin to D brouwen, G brauen, ON brugga

]

—Related forms

brewer, noun

—Synonyms 4. concoct, scheme, plot, devise, hatch, cook up.

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brew   (brōō) Pronunciation Key
v.   brewed, brew·ing, brews

v.   tr.

To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea.
To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.

v. intr.

To make ale or beer as an occupation.
To be made by boiling or steeping: As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
To be imminent; impend: "storms brewing on every frontier" (John Dos Passos).

1. A beverage made by brewing.
2. A serving of such a beverage.
Something produced as if by brewing; a mix: Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.

[Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]

brew'age n., brew'er n.

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O.E. breowan (class II strong verb, past tense breaw, past participle browen), from P.Gmc. *breuwan "to brew" (cf. O.N. brugga, O.Fris. briuwa, M.Du. brouwen), from PIE base *bhreue- "to bubble, boil, effervesce" (cf. Skt. bhurnih "violent, passionate," Gk. phrear "well, spring," L. fervere "to boil, foam," Thracian Gk. brytos "fermented liquor made from barley;" O.E. beorma "yeast;" O.H.G. brato "roast meat"), the original sense thus being "make a drink by boiling." The noun is 1510, from the verb. Brewery (1658) replaced brewhouse (1373).

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brew
noun
1.	drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
verb
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"

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Brew

Bar"ley-bree`\ (-br[=e]`), n. [Lit. barley broth. See Brew.] Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] --Burns.

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Brew

Beer\, n. [OE. beor, ber, AS. be['o]r; akin to Fries. biar, Icel. bj?rr, OHG. bior, D. & G. bier, and possibly E. brew. [root]93, See Brew.]

1. A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

Note: Beer has different names, as small beer, ale, porter, brown stout, lager beer, according to its strength, or other qualities. See Ale.

2. A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." --Shak.

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Bread\, n. [AS. bre['a]d; akin to OFries. br[=a]d, OS. br?d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau?, Sw. & Dan. br["o]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. ? See Brew.]

1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

Note:

Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking.

Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid.

Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only.

A["e]rated bread. See under A["e]rated.

Bread and butter (fig.), means of living.

Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown.

Bread tree. See Breadfruit.

2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Give us this day our daily bread. --Matt. vi. 11

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