| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  st m |
| NOUN: | 1. Unfermented or partly fermented grape juice; must. 2. Vapid wine renewed by an admixture of stum. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: stummed, stum·ming, stums
To ferment (vapid wine) by adding stum. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Dutch stom, dumb, stum, from Middle Dutch.
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