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To win again, or win back. The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. Fuller.

The quantity brewed at once. A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon.

a. & n. from Screw, v. t. Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

The act of scattering or spreading.

beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.

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

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

y be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler to prevent the return of the feed water. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden.

ape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Duplex pumping engine, a steam pump in which two steam cylinders are placed side by side, one operating the valves of the othe…

The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.

The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.

Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood. -- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a…

thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

py state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.

tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut. -- Nut buoy. See under Buoy. -- Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also chestnut coal. -- Nut crab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Eba…

Act of strewing about; something scattered. South.