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To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

A corkscrew. Swift.

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

rom malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." Shak.

Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

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

Broth or pottage. [Obs.] Let them of their Bonner's "beef" and "broth" make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall.

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

To grow together. [Obs.] Spenser.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. Faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew Milton.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

See Cruet.

To decrease. [Obs.] Spenser.