Brevity
(Brev"i*ty) n.; pl. Brevities [L. brevitas, fr. brevis short: cf. F. brièvité. See Brief.]
1. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
2. Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shak.
This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity.
Bp. Porteus.
Syn. — Shortness; conciseness; succinctness; terseness.
Brew
(Brew) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing.] [OE. brewen, AS. breówan; akin
to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, brwen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan.
brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. (for ?) a kind of beer. The original meaning
seems to have been to prepare by heat. &radic93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
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.
3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
Shak.
4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
Milton.
Brew
(Brew) v. i.
1. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.
Shak.
2. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
Shak.
Brew
(Brew) n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon.
Brewage
(Brew"age) n. Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton.
A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine.
Macaulay.
Brewer
(Brew"er) n. One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
Brewery
(Brew"er*y) n. A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Brewhouse
(Brew"house`) n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
Brewing
(Brew"ing) n.
1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
