Verb

(en verb)

To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

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Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.

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Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

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

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I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.

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

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There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7

Their land shall be soaked with blood.

(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.

(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.

(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )

* {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

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To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.

To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.

(label) To absorb; to drain.