Word Meanings - BRAGGET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to BRAGGET)

• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• HONEY
  G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The
• LIQUORICE
  See LICORICE
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
• HONEY-BAG
  The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.
• HONEYSTONE
  See MELLITE
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• HONEYBIRD
  The honey guide.
• HONEYBERRY
  having sweetish berries: An Old World hackberry . In the West Indies, the genip .
• HONEYCOMBED
  Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.
• HONEYSUCKER
  See HONEY
• HONEYDEW
  1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. 2. A kind
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• RE-FERMENT
  To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.
• DEFERMENT
  The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.
• TOP FERMENTATION
  An alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermening liquid. It proceeds with some violence and requires a temperature of 14-30º C. . It is used in the production of ale, porter, etc., and of wines high