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

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

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

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

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. Macaulay. I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. Swift.

to play the critic. [Obs.] Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done. A. Brewer.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. -- Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.

ns at equal rates of duty. -- Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by…

A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer.

tion in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.