Stum — Defs

01 n. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.

1.
Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
“Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.” — B. Jonson.

“And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.” — Dryden.
2.
Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.

02 v. t. To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

imp. & p. p. Stummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming

1.
To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
“We stum our wines to renew their spirits.” — Floyer.