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What does "brew" mean?

Brew: To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. Shak.
  2. 3.To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.
  3. 4.To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak.
  4. 5.To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. Shak.
  5. 6.The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon.

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