'Brewing' definitions:
Definition of 'brewing'
From: WordNet
noun
The production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
Definition of 'Brewing'
From: GCIDE
- Brew \Brew\ (br[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed (br[udd]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing.] [OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br[=u]wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. bry^ton (for fry^ton?) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]
- 1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. [1913 Webster]
- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. [1913 Webster]
- Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brewing'
From: GCIDE
- Brewing \Brew"ing\, n.
- 1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quantity brewed at once. [1913 Webster]
- A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A mixing together. [1913 Webster]
- I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'brewing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about to be,
- already in sight,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- baking,
- barbecuing,
- basting,
- boiling,
- braising,
- broil,
- broiling,
- catering,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- cookery,
- cooking,
- cuisine,
- culinary science,
- domestic science,
- drench,
- drenching,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- forthcoming,
- frying,
- future,
- gathering,
- going on,
- going to happen,
- grilling,
- home economics,
- imbruement,
- imbuement,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- impregnation,
- in danger imminent,
- in embryo,
- in hand,
- in preparation,
- in process,
- in production,
- in progress,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the oven,
- in the wind,
- in the works,
- in view,
- infiltration,
- infusion,
- injection,
- instant,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- looming,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- maceration,
- menacing,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- nutrition,
- on stream,
- on the anvil,
- on the fire,
- on the horizon,
- on the way,
- overhanging,
- pan-broiling,
- percolation,
- permeation,
- poaching,
- preparing,
- pulping,
- roasting,
- saturation,
- sauteing,
- searing,
- seething,
- shirring,
- simmering,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sopping,
- souse,
- sousing,
- steeping,
- stewing,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- to come,
- toasting,
- under construction,
- under revision,
- under way,
- upcoming,
- waiting