单词 | sweet-wort |
释义 | sweet-wort|ˈswiːtwɜːt| [wort n.2] A sweet-flavoured wort; esp. the infusion of malt, before the hops are added in the manufacture of beer. Also attrib.
1567Richmond Wills (Surtees) 203 In the bachousse and brewhouse..a swete worte toube. 1567Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 267 A lead, a maskfatt and a swett wort fatt. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 279 Of all Food [for bees], Honey is the best..if it is mixed well with a moderate Proportion of good Sweet-wort. 1793Beddoes Sea Scurvy 91 Sweet wort, or the extract of malt. 1851–4Tomlinson Cycl. Arts (1867) II. 667/1 This vitreous mass was formerly obtained by rapidly boiling down a concentrated solution of sugar in barley-water or sweet-wort, and hence the name of barley-sugar applied to sticks of it. 1876Harley Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 322 Alcohol is obtained by the distillation of any saccharine fluid which has been subjected to fermentation. Sweet worts are formed for this purpose by the action of diastase on the starch of the cereals or the potato. ⁋Webster's (1847–54) definition ‘Any plant of a sweet taste’, copied by later Dicts., cannot be authenticated. |

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