Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STUM
STUM, n. [D. stom, stum, dumb; G. stumm, Dan. and Sw. stum, dumb, mute.]
- Must; wine unfermented. – Addison.
- New wine used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines. – B. Jonson.
- Wine revived by a new fermentation. – Hudibras.
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