brew

verb

1. 1

   To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

   Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

2. 2

   To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

   Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

3. 3

   To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

4. 4

   To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

5. 5

   To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

   Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

6. 6

   To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

   I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]

7. 7

   To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

   There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

   Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.

   Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.

8. 8

   obsoleteTo boil or seethe; to cook.

   She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'

noun

1. 1

   The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

   Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.

2. 2

   slangThe mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. A serving of beer.

   Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill

3. 3

   slangThe mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. A cup of tea.

   Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.

4. 4

   A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.

   In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.

noun

1. 1

   An overhanging hill or cliff.

Forms

plural

brews

past tense

brewed

past participle

brewed

present participle

brewing

third person singular

brews