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Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

See Bebeerine.

To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

r compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.]

To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.

One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

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.

The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

ly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene.

A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.