stum

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet; German stummer Wein.

• Homophones: shtum, shtoom

stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)

1. Unfermented grape juice; must.
   • Ben Jonson

     Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.

   • John Dryden

     And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
   • 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1, published 1835, Part II, Canto 1, page 265:

     Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum,
     And make it brisk champaign become.[note 1]

3. New wine used to revive dead or vapid wine.
4. A mixture used to impart artificial strength, etc. to weak beer or wine.

stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stumming, simple past and past participle stummed)

1. (transitive) To ferment.
2. (transitive) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
   • Floyer

     We stum our wines to renew their spirits.

3. (transitive) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.

• stum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• MTUs, UMTS, UTMS, must, smut, tums

stum (neuter stumt, plural and definite singular attributive stumme)

1. mute, not possessing the ability of speech
2. temporarily unable to speak due to strong emotion
3. not involving speech

   De så ikke min stumme bøn.

   They did not see my silent plea.

stum

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of stumt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of stumt

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stum

1. mute; unable to speak

• stumhet
• stumfilm