单词 | fermenting |
释义 | fermentingn. The action of ferment v.; also attributive. ΚΠ 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy ix, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 173 Fermentyng in dyvers maners is don. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 8/1 What a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid! 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 415 Twenty gallons in each fermenting tub. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xi. 37 My..study-lamp is now fixed under a barrel to..raise a fermenting temperature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). fermentingadj. That ferments; in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [adjective] > fermenting working1645 fermenting1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 71 When with fermenting Juice the Vat o'reflows. View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Addison Campaign 108 Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. iv The fermenting mischief burst forth. 1872 H. W. Taunt Map of Thames 15 The bung flies upwards from the fermenting beer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1471adj.1697 |
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