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noun
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
- (Commonwealth English) A cup of tea.
- (Commonwealth English) The act of making a cup of tea.
- (context, UK, colloquial) A hill.
verb
- (context, transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
- (context, transitive, Commonwealth English) To prepare a teapot of tea.
- (context, transitive, Commonwealth English) To put the kettle on for a cup of tea.
- (context, transitive, Commonwealth English) To prepare, as beer or other liquor (or even ginger beer, shandy), from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
- w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act III, scene I
- : She brews good ale.
- (transitive) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
- w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
- : Go, me a pottle of sack finely.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
- w:John Milton, John Milton
- : Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
- : I wash, wring, , bake, scour.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, orgathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
- w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
- : There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
Etymology: (term, brÄowan, lang=ang).
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