Definition of ferment

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Ferment (n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

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Antizymic :: Antizymic (a.) Preventing fermentation.
Flower :: Flower (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..
Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Heat :: Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill..
Stumbled :: Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation..
Stearate :: Steapsin (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.
Zymosimeter :: Zymosimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation..
Wort :: Wort (n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation..
Sauerkraut :: Sauerkraut (n.) Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish..
Hydromel :: Hydromel (n.) A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead..
Fermentability :: Fermentability (n.) Capability of fermentation.
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.
Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form..
Ferment :: Ferment (n.) To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
Trypsin :: Trypsin (n.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin..
Papain :: Papain (n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America..
Microzyme :: Microzyme (n.) A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..
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