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v. i. 1. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Malt liquor; drink brewed. “Some well-spiced brewage.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity brewed at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mixing together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brewis, brouwys, browesse, brewet, OF. brouet, -s being the OF. ending of the nom. sing. and acc. pl.; dim. of OHG. brod. √93. See Broth, and cf. Brose. ] 1. Broth or pottage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let them of their Bonner's “beef” and “broth” make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Sir David Brewster. ] A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To imbrue; to stain with blood. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Hébreu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. 'ibhrī. ] 1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. [ 1913 Webster ]

There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites. [ 1913 Webster ]

. same as Jewish calendar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An Israelitish woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prepared in hell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]