brew

UK /bɹuː/ US /bɹuː/
verb 5noun 5name 1

Definitions

verb

1

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

2

To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

3

To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

4

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

5

To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

noun

1

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.

2

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill

3

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.

4

A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.

In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.

noun

1

An overhanging hill or cliff.

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