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Toddy :: Toddy (n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation..

Fermentability :: Fermentability (n.) Capability of fermentation.

Acescency :: Acescency (n.) The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.

Pasteurization :: Pasteurization (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments..

Acetous :: Acetous (a.) Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation..

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm..

Erythrozyme :: Erythrozyme (n.) A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar..

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..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..

Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation..

Heat :: Heat (n.) Fermentation.

Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Antizymotic :: Antizymotic (a.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition.

Ale :: Ale (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops..

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..

Lactic :: Lactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc..

Stummed :: Stum (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must..

Zymogene :: Zymogene (n.) One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which produces fermentations of diverse nature; -- distinguished from pathogene.

Scum :: Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross..

Stum :: Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must..

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