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Tun :: Tun (n.) A fermenting vat.

Ferment :: Ferment (v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce..

Mowburn :: Mowburn (v. i.) To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green..

Referment :: Referment (n.) The act of referring; reference.

Proteolysis :: Proteolysis (n.) The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

Emication :: Emication (n.) A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation..

Union :: Union (n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on..

Ptyalin :: Ptyalin (n.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals..

Zymogenic :: Zymogenic (a.) Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment.

Maltine :: Maltine (n.) The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt..

Beneficed :: Beneficed (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..

Fox :: Fox (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting..

Levulosan :: Levulosan (n.) An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.

Mother :: Mother (n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation..

Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Round :: Round (n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole..

Ebullition :: Ebullition (n.) Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali..

Foam :: Foam (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea..

Kirschwasser :: Kirschwasser (n.) An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry..

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