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A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

A tub; a brewer's vessel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To labialize. Brewer.

malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.

An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops. Craig. Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.

hands of five persons; five joint rulers. P. Fletcher. "The pentarchy of the senses." A. Brewer.

domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

pecially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

e brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]

A brewery. [R.]